Research Interests: Dr. Zhang’s research interests and expertise are neural networks, fuzzy logic and their applications in autonomous robot navigation, signal processing, and renewable energy.
Career in Brief: Dr. Nian Zhang received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the Wuhan University of Technology in 1996, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1999, and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2004. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T), Rapid City, from 2004 to 2009. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington D.C., USA.
Dr. Zhang is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks since 2010. She is an IEEE Senior Member. She was a Co-Editor of the Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN2009, and a Guest Editor of International Journal of Systems, Control and Communication (IJSCC). She serves as the Publicity Chair of the 2011 International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2011), Publications Chair of the International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2011), Publications Chair of the Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI2011), Publications Chair of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2011), Publications Chair of the Third International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI 2010), Publications Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP 2010), Program Co-Chair of the Sixth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2009), Publications Co-Chair for 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), and Technical Program Committee Member for many IEEE international conferences.
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