Welcome to the Heterogeneous Engineering Device (HED) Lab at UT Dallas!

Professional Experience

Dr. Zhou received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (Advisor: Prof. Jack Ma) in 2023 and his M.S. (with distinction) in Microelectronics from Peking University, China (Advisor: Prof. Zhaoyu Zhang) in 2018. Dr. Zhou is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor with the ECE department at The University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to that, he was a Visiting Scientist at Northwestern University, USA (Prof. John A. Rogers) and a Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (Prof. Jack Ma).

Dr. Zhou actively works on semiconductor lattice-mismatched heterojunction devices, including transistors, diodes, photodetectors, LEDs, and lasers. He also develops semiconductor nanomembrane devices for bioelectronic applications.

Dr. Zhou has published over 50 journal and conference papers. He also serves as a technical reviewer for more than 20 academic journals, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, IEEE Electron Device Letters, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Applied Physics Letters, etc.

Honors

GomacTech, The George Abraham Outstanding Paper Award · 2023

List of Golden Reviewers, the IEEE Electron Device Letters · 2023

ECE Welcome Award, ECE department, UW-Madison · 2019

Excellent Graduate of Beijing (Top 5%), the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality · 2018

Excellent Graduate (Top 5%), Peking University · 2018

Excellent Master’s Thesis (Top 5%), Peking University · 2018

Kwang-Hua Scholarship (1/68), Peking University · 2017

Merit Student (Top 10%), Peking University · 2017

Best Student Paper Nomination, CLEO Pacific Rim · 2017

Excellent Graduate (Top 5%), Southwest Jiaotong University · 2015

The Second Prize of the National Mathematical Modeling Contest, Ministry of Education, China · 2013

Merit Student (Top 10%), Southwest Jiaotong University · 2011-2015

First-Class Scholarship (Top 5%), Southwest Jiaotong University · 2011-2015