Songyang Zhang
Songyang Zhang
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Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Email: songyang.zhang@louisiana.edu
Phone: (337) 482-1300
About Me
I am currently an Assistant Professor with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California at Davis, where I received the Ph.D. degree (2021) mentored by Prof. Zhi Ding (IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Shuguang (Robert) Cui (IEEE Fellow, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Royal Society of Canada). Prior to Ph.D. study, I received the Bachelor of Engineering (2016) in Electronic Information Engineering at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui, China.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Davis (UC Davis), 2016-2021
BENG, Electronic Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2012-2016
Professional Experience
Aug. 2023 - Present Assistant Professor - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA
Aug. 2021 - Jul. 2023 Postdoctoral Research Associate - University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Mar. 2023 - Jun. 2023 Lecturer - University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2021 Research and Teaching Assistant - University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Mar. 2016 - May 2016 Visiting Research Assistant - Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Shenzhen, China
Honors & Awards
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2024 Reviewer Certificate (2025)
Recognition of Outstanding Research, ECE Department, UL Lafayette (2025)
Faculty Professional Development Travel Grant, UL Lafayette (2024)
Faculty Research Travel Grant, UL Lafayette (2024,2025)
Dissertation Writing Fellowship, UC Davis (2021)
ECE-GSA Community Awards, UC Davis (2021)
Paper Award Finalists (Top 6), 2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (2020)
ECEGP Fellowship, UC Davis (2016, 2017, 2018)
Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest in Modeling/Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (2015)
Outstanding Student Scholarship, USTC (2013, 2014)
Editorial Services
Lead Guest Editor, MDPI Electronics, Special Issue "Artificial Intelligence Applied to Image Processing：Advantages and Prognosis". [Link]
Editor, Elsevier Book, "Generative Learning for Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and Applications".
Office: Madison Hall 248H
Tel: (337) 482-1300
Email: songyang.zhang@louisiana.edu
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Madison Hall 146b
131 Rex St., Lafayette, LA 70504
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