Prof. ZHANG Wei Elected 2026 IEEE Fellow

Prof. ZHANG Wei, Professor of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the class of 2026. She was recognized “for contributions to agile design flow for FPGA and software-hardware co-design for embedded system security”.

Prof. Zhang established the Reconfigurable System Lab at HKUST. She was an assistant professor in School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 2010 to 2013. She has authored and co-authored more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences, and won the best paper awards in ISVLSI 2009, ICCAD 2017, and ICCAD 2022. Her current research interests include reconfigurable computing, software-hardware co-design, computer architecture, EDA and embedded system security. She currently serves on several editorial boards, such as ACM TRETS, IEEE TCAD, ACM TECS, IEEE TCSAI, etc. She also serves on many conference organization committees and technical program committees, as general chair, TPC-chair, Asian representatives etc.

The IEEE grade of Fellow is conferred upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. It is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. IEEE members total over 480,000 in more than 190 countries. The number of fellowship recipients each year does not exceed 0.1% of the total voting IEEE membership.

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• IEEE Fellow Class of 2026