Hemin Zhang, Ph.D.

CONTACT:

https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00142801

EMPLOYMENT:

  • 2020.12-Present, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT)-MNS, KU Leuven. In the group of Prof. M. Kraft.

  • 2019.4-2020.11, Reserch Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. In the group of Prof. A. Seshia.

  • 2017.9-2019.3, Postdoc, Universite´ Paris-Est, ESYCOM Lab., ESIEE Paris, France. In the group of Prof. P. Basset.

EDUCATION：

  • 2011.9-2017.7, Ph. D., Microelectromechanical systems and Nanotechnology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.

Thesis: Research on a novel sensing mechanism based on mode localization of the weakly coupled resonators. Advisor: Prof. Weizheng Yuan. Co-advisor: Prof. Honglong Chang.

  • 2007.9-2011.7, B. E., Electrical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  1. MEMS resonators and their front-end circuits

  2. MEMS sensors and the applications

  3. Energy harvesters and the conditioning circuits

News & Upcoming Events:

  • Aug. 2022: a paper (as a corresponding author) was accepted by IEEE Trans. Electron Device.

  • Jan. 6th, 2022: a paper entitled "On The Dynamic Range and Resolution of Thermal-Piezoresistive Resonant Mass Sensors " was accepted by IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.

  • Nov. 11th, 2021: a paper (as 1st author) entitled "Mode-localized Accelerometer in Nonlinear Duffing Regime with 75 ng Bias Instability and 95 ng/√Hz Noise floor" was accepted by Microsystems & Nanoengineering.

  • Oct. 19th, 2021: a paper (as 1st author) was accepted as an oral presentation by IEEE MEMS 2022. Four other coauthored papers were accepted as well.

  • Apr. 27th, 2021: two papers (one as first author, one as corresponding author) were accepted by Transducers 2021.

  • Feb. 2nd, 2021: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.

  • Nov. 25th, 2020: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by IEEE MEMS 2021.

  • Oct. 12nd, 2020: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by Applied Physics Letters.

  • Sept. 30th, 2020: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control.

  • Aug. 27th, 2020: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by IEEE Electron Device Letters.

  • Jun 26th, 2020: the NC paper online (Employing a MEMS plasma switch for conditioning high-voltage kinetic energy harvesters)

  • May 15th, 2020: the paper was finally accepted by Nature Communications, the final version coming soon.

  • Apr. 24th, 2020: a paper (1st authored) was principally accepted by Nature Communications.

  • Dec. 16th, 2019: a European patent (a work in ESIEE Paris) was accepted (inventors: H. Zhang and P. Basset).

  • Nov. 22nd, 2019: went into the Best Paper Award Finalist of PowerMEMS 2019.

  • Nov. 5th, 2019: receipted the outstanding doctoral dissertation award of Shaanxi Province.

  • Oct. 22nd, 2019: two papers (1st authored) were accepted by IEEE MEMS 2020, both as posters. Another three coauthored papers were accepted as well.

  • Sept. 14th, 2019: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by PowerMEMS 2019 as an oral presentation.

  • Aug. 10th, 2019: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by IEEE Sensors Conference 2019 as a lecture.

  • Apr. 4th, 2019: obtained the outstanding doctoral dissertation award of Northwestern Polytechnical University

  • Apr. 2nd, 2019: starting as a research associate at the University of Cambridge in Prof. Ashwin Seshia's group.

  • Feb. 22nd, 2019: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by Transducers 2019 as an oral presentation.

  • Feb. 12th, 2019: receipted the 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, associated with KU Leuven, Prof. M. Kraft.

  • Sept. 10th, 2018: receipting the silver award of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES) Hiwin Doctoral Dissertation Award. There are only one gold award and two silver awards among ~1500 PhD graduates in mechanical engineering this year.

  • Sept. 6th, 2018: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by PowerMEMS 2018 as an oral presentation.

  • July 2018: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal.

  • July 2018: a paper (2nd authored), collaborated with Oxford Prof. B. Choubey, was accepted by JMEMS.

  • June 2018: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by Nano Energy.

  • May 2018: a paper (1st authored) was accepted by Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical.