Tong Zhang, Professor, IEEE Fellow

Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

   Office: CII 6217
   Phone: (518) 276-2945
   Fax: (518) 276-8761
   E-mail: tzhang@ecse.rpi.edu

Research Position(s) Available: candidates with strong interest in computing system design are encouraged to apply and contact Professor Zhang.

Tong Zhang is currently a Professor in the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Xian Jiaotong University, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2002. He joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2002, and became an associate professor and full professor in 2008 and 2013, respectively.

His current research areas are computer system design with the focus on memory-centric computing for AI and data science. Being highly inter-disciplinary in nature, his research has been always driven by important real-life applications, and his current and past research span over computer systems, memory and data storage, VLSI signal processing, error correction coding, digital communication, and multimedia processing. He has served as an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Storage, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II, and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. In addition to academic research, he is passionate about technological innovations with true real-life impact. He co-founded ScaleFlux Inc. at Silicon Valley, a pioneer and industry leader in memory and storage system controller SoC design.