Qingquan(Tony) Zhang

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

4-149 EECS Building

200 Union Street SE

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Office Tel: 612-625-8348
Email: zhan0511@umn.edu

I am a Ph.D student of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. My research interests include wireless sensor networks (WSNs), VLSI System and related areas. I am also interested financial technology and statistical analysis in Finance. I'm a member of Minnesota Embeded Sensor System(MESS) Group and affiliated with Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). My advisors are Prof.Gerald Sobelman and Prof. Tian He .

Education

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
GPA:3.85/4.0

Merrill Lynch, Global Private Client Group, Minneapolis, MN, Jan. 2006 - May. 2006 as Intern Financial Analyst
LSI Logic, IP Strategy Groups, Bloomington, MN, Jun. 2006 - Sept. 2006, Intern Hardware Engineer
INTEL Products (Shanghai) LTD. ,Shanghai,China, Nov. 2002-Aug. 2003, Intern Product Engineer

EE2301 Introduction to Logic Design (Fall 2007)
Student Instructor: EE2011 Linear Systems and Circuits (Spring 2007)
EE5364 VLSI Design II (Fall 2006)
Student Instructor:EE2101 Introductory Circuits and Electronics Laboratory (Spring 2006)

Best Paper Award at International Conference of Mobile Wireless Sensor Network, 2006
Infineon Microelectronics Fellowship, Fudan University,2001
First Prize Winner in Olympiad in Physics, China, 1996

Qingquan Zhang, Yu Gu, Tian He and Gerald E. Sobelman. Cscan: A Correlation-based Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, April, 2008 [PDF][Bibtex]

Qingquan Zhang, Gerald E. Sobelman and Tian He, Gradient-Driven Target Location Acquisition in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks,Best Paper Award, Proceedings, International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4325, pp. 365-376, 2006, Springer. [PDF][Bibtex]

Qingquan Zhang, Woong Cho, Gerald E. Sobelman, Liuqing Yang and Richard Voyles, ``TwinsNet: A Cooperative MIMO Mobile Sensor Network,`` Proceedings, International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4159, pp. 508-516, 2006, Springer.[PDF][Bibtex]
Shijing Ding, Qingquan Zhang, Wei Zhang, ``Copper metallization of low-dielectric-constant a-SiCOF films for ULSI interconnects" J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 13 (2001) 6595 - 6608.)
Qingquan Zhang, Siyang Zhu, Yiping Huang, ``Modified Model of Porous Silicon Formation and Computer Simulation Analysis", Journal of Fudan, 1 (2003) 74 - 77.)
Shijing Ding, Qingquan Zhang, Wei Zhang ,``XPS Characterization of the interface between low dielectric constant amorphous fluoropolymer film and evaporation -deposited aluminum" Applied Surface Science .178 (2001) 140 -148.
Shijing Ding, Qingquan Zhang, Wei Zhang , ``Characterization of Fluorine and Carbon-Doped Silicon Oxide Film Deposited by PECVD "Journal of Inorganic Materials,Vol16(2001)1165-1173)
Shijing Ding, Qingquan Zhang, Jitao Wang, Wei Zhang, ``Analysis of Characteristic on a-SiCOF thin film by PECVD deposition" ,Journal of High Technology 2001.
Wei Zhang, Shijing Ding, Qingquan Zhang, Jitao Wang and et.al Deposition of SiCOF/a-C:F Double-Layer Films by PECVD for Low Dielectric Constant Interconnection Dielectrics". Proceedings of 1st international Conference on Semiconductor Technology (ISTC2001)

Qingquan Zhang, Yu Gu, Tian He and Gerald E. Sobelman, "Cooperative Data Reduction in Environmental Sensor Networks."
Qingquan Zhang, Gerald E. Sobelman and Tian He, "Gradient-Based Target Localization in Robotic Sensor Networks."

Student member of PMI, IEEE
Reviewer for:
- ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks
- IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols,2007

Since July 8, 2007