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OPENINGS

1. General Information

For graduate applicants: You are encouraged to read this document (written by Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter at CMU) if you are not sure whether you should pursue a PhD degree. Please also read our recent papers to see whether you are really interested in our research topics. If you want to join us as a graduate student, please submit an application online and indicate Prof. Zhang's name in the application system. Technical requirement: Due to the interdisciplinary nature of our research, we welcome exceptional students from diverse backgrounds. Science (e.g., applied math) and engineering (e.g., ECE, CE, MechE) students with strong quantitative and math skills are encouraged to apply. Prior research experience is a plus but generaly NOT required for graduate applicants. We except our graduate students to be highly self-motivated and to really enjoy doing research.

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For postdocs & visiting scholars: research experience related to one of the following areas is highly preferred:

  • Applied math or computational physics, such as uncertainty quantification, tensor methods, numerical optimization, PDE or integral equation solvers, statistics;

  • Electrical, Computer or Mechanical Engineering, such as electronic and/or photonic design atuomation algorithms, computational electromagnetics, control and verification algorithms, hardware accelerators based on FPGA or GPU;

  • Topics related to AI or data analytics, such as machine learning, MRI data analysis, brain imaging, autonomous systems;

  • Other topics that are complementary to and may fit with our research interests.

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2. Financial Support

Accepted PhD students and postdocs are usually supported with full scholarship (e.g., TA, RA or postdoc salary). Most fundings are from our research grants, therefore the opennings depend on the amount of our new research funding. Exceptional applicants may be awarded a campus-level multi-year fellowship provided by UCSB.

 

External fellowship: we may have additional openings if you have an external fellowship. Examples include: NSF Graduate Fellowship, DOE Graduate Fellowship, the fellowship of China Scholarship Council (中国国家留学基金委) for PhD students, postdocs and visiting scholars, Marie Curie Fellowship for EU citizens. Please contact Prof. Zhang if you want to join us with an external fellowship (and if you need his help on your fellowship application).

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3. Contact
Prof. Zhang will be available to answer only a few emails. In your inquiry email, please indicate your interested research areas and briefly describe how much you know about those areas. For graduate applicants, the email title should be "Graduate Application" + Year + your full names (e.g., "Graduate Application 2018 Mike Smith"). You are suggested to provide a link to (or PDF files of) the following documents: (1) your full CV and academic transcripts, (2) representative publications (if available), (3) a brief research statement (with one or two pages) describing your research plan (for visiting scholars and postdoc).

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Please contact Prof. Zhang if you need his help on your application of external fellowship (e.g., CSC fellowship).

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Contact:

4109 Harold Frank Hall, ECE Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

E-mail: zhengzhang [AT] ece.ucsb.edu   Phone: 805-893-7294 

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