Wei Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
VCU School of Engineering

SERVICES TO UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENT

  1. Department Committees
    • Chair, CpE faculty Search Committee, 2013-2014
    • Peer Review P&T Committee for ECE faculty, 2012
    • Computer Engineering Faculty Search Committee, 2011
    • ECE Search Committee for Research Assistant Professorship, Spring 2011
    • Ad hoc Committee for Graduate Student Appeal, VCU, Spring 2011
    • IEEE VCU, Faculty Advisor, 2011-
    • Founding Faculty Advisor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society HKN at SIUC, Spring 2010
    • Computer Engineering Committee, SIUC, 2003-2010
    • Faculty Search Committee, SIUC, 2005, 2008, 2009
    • ECE Honors Committee, SIUC, 2008-2010

  2. College Committees
    • Chair, Grade Appeal Committee, Fall 2012, Spring 2013
    • FIRST Robotics Co-Coordinator for School of Engineering, 2013-
    • Peer Review Committee for CS faculty, Fall 2011
    • Mentor of the College of Engineering Freshmen Mentoring Program at SIUC, 2005-2006
    • Local facilitator for NSF web-based CCLI proposal writing workshop at SIUC, Oct. 2009

  3. University Committees
    • University Council, 2014-2016
    • University Grievance Panel, 2014-2017
    • Mentor, Junior Faculty Mentorship program, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), VCU, 2013 -
    • Judge, SIUC Science Fair, March 2006, 2008, 2009
    • Faculty Status and Welfare Committee, Faculty Senate of SIUC, 2007
    • Ad Hoc Committee on Textbook Costs, Faculty Senate of SIUC, 2009
    • Morris/Doctoral Fellowship Review Panel of SIUC, 2010

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  1. Memberships Held in Professional Associations
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

  2. Professional Activities
    • ExCom Member-at-large IEEE Richmond Section, 2011, 2012, 2013
    • Associate Editor
      • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, 2012-
      • International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems, 2012-
      • ACTA Press International Journal of Computers and Applications, 2005-2006.
    • Workshop Chair, the 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), August, 2009
    • Poster Chair, 14th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), St. Louis, MO, April 22 - April 24, 2008
    • Publicity Chair, the 2007 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS’07), 2007
    • Invited Session Chair
      • The 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), August, 2014.
      • The 32nd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Session 1: System Optimization. Dec, 2013.
      • The 2008 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2008), December 2008.
      • Session 2: The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Computing (SEC-07), May, 2007
      • Session 2: Low Power Design and Technology, The ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2006 (GLSVLSI’06), May 14-16, 2006
      • Session 6B, Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, September 2004
    • Technical Program Committee Member
      • The 29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IEEE IPDPS 2015), 2015
      • IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), 2014
      • The IEEE International Conference on Embedded Computing (EmbeddedCom), 2014
      • The International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS), 2012, 2013
      • The IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage ( NAS), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
      • The IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
      • IEEE Frontiers in Education(FIE), 2012
      • The ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
      • International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
      • The 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Real-Time Systems (RTS), March 2011
      • The 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Real-Time Systems (RTS), March 2011
      • The 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Real-Time Systems (RTS), March 2011
      • The sixth International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC 2011), August 2011
      • The International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, 2008, 2009, 2010
      • The Work-in-Progress (WIP) session of The 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 2009
      • 2009 International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES 2009), November 2009.
      • The 8th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Computing (EmbeddedCom-09), September 2009
      • The 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2008, 2010
      • The First International Conference on Contemporary Computing NOIDA, August 7-9, 2008
      • The 2008 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2008), December 2008
      • The IEEE 9th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, July 2008
      • The 2007 MEDEA Workshop Memory Performance: Dealing with Applications, Systems, and Architecture (MEDEA’07), in conjunction with PACT 2007 Conference, Sept. 2007
      • The 2007 International Workshop on Embedded Parallel and Distributed Computing (EDPC’07), September, 2007
      • The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Computing (SEC-07), May, 2007
      • The 2007 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS’07), 2007
      • The 2007 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS’07), 2007
      • The ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2006 (GLSVLSI’06), May 14-16, 2006
      • The 2005 MEDEA Workshop Memory Performance: Dealing with Applications, Systems, and Architecture (MEDEA’05), in conjunction with PACT 2005 Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri, Sept. 17- 21, 2005
      • The 2005 International Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC'05), 2005
      • The Second International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS’05), 2005
      • The 2005 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Application (ESA’05), 2005

  3. Evaluation of Manuscripts for Journals and Book Publishers and of Grant Proposals for Agencies
    • NSF Panelist: March 2008 and October 2008
    • DOE SGIG Grant Review: September 2009
    • University of Missouri Research Board, Grant Review, October 2010
    • Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et les technologies (Canada), 2011
    • Reviewer of the following journals
      • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI)
      • IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
      • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
      • ACM Transaction on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
      • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
      • Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
      • Journal of Real-Time Systems (RTS)
      • IEE Proceedings Computers & Digital Techniques (CDT)
      • International Journal of Computer Languages, Systems and Structures
    • Reviewer of the following conferences/workshops (not served as TPC member)
      • International Conference on Compiler Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), 2012, 2013.
      • The 40th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA40), 2012.
      • The 32nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2011.
      • The 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2006
      • IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2006
      • IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2006
      • IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2005
      • International Conference on Compiler, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), 2005
      • Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (WCAE), 2005
      • Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP), 2005
      • International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2004
    • Books Reviewed
      • Design of Energy-Efficient Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIPs) By Tilman Glokler and Heinrich Meyr, Springer Publisher 2004. Review is published in IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, March/April 2006.
      • A Hands-on Introduction to SoC: Front-End Hardware Design and Functional Verification. By Donald Hung, Wendy Chan, Melvin Lim, John Vien, and Ming Fung Yee, Pearson Professional Technical Group, July 2010.