The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to welcome new faculty members, Huiyang Zhou and Zhenhua Jiang.

Huiyang Zhou received the bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Xian Jiaotong University, China, in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from North Carolina State University in 2003. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Between 2003 and 2009, he was an assistant professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida. His research focuses on high performance microarchitecture, low-power design, architecture support for system dependability, and backend compiler optimization. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER award and a senior member of the IEEE.

Before joining North Carolina State University as an Associate Professor in 2009, Dr. Jiang was an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami, where he led a group of researchers and graduate students who worked on various problems towards a sustainable energy infrastructure. The goal of his research is to explore new ways to develop a smart electric grid of the future that would replace the nation’s current aging, vulnerable, and inefficient system. One of the research focuses is to explore new approaches to integrate environmentally clean, distributed energy resources into existing electric power distribution systems via smart microgrids by employing advanced sensing, communications, computing, control, power electronics and intelligent technologies.