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.

Prof. Zhang was recognized “for contributions to agile design flow for FPGA and software-hardware co-design for embedded system security”. Her research interests cover reconfigurable system and FPGA-based design, hardware based accelerating for machine learning, and high-performance, low-power multicore systems.

Prof. Zhang received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University with Wu Prize for research excellence. She was an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2010 to 2013. She joined HKUST in 2013 and established the Reconfigurable Computing Systems Lab. She has authored over 100 technical papers in referred international journals and conferences and authored three book chapters. Her team has won the best paper award in ISVLSI 2009, ICCAD 2017, and ICCAD 2022.

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