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Feng Zhang

     

      Graduate Research Assistant

      Georgia Water Resources Institute
      School of Civil & Env. Eng.
      Georgia Institute of Technology

      fzhang@gatech.edu
 

Education

Ph.D.   Georgia Institute of Technology, in process
           Major: Civil Engineering
Ph.D.   Candidate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2006
           Major: System Analysis and Integration, Hydropower School
           Thesis: Distributed Composite Structural Health Monitoring System Integration
M.S.,    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 2003
           Major: Electrical Engineering
           Thesis: Parallel Adaptive Mesh Library Design for FEM Software Integration 
B.S.,    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 2000

           Major: Automobile Electronics Engineering

Employment/Work Experience

  • May 2007 – present, Research Assistant, Georgia Water Resources Institute, Atlanta, GA, US
  • Jan. 2006 – April 2007, Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Mars Mission Research Center, Raleigh, NC, US
  • Sep. 2003 – Dec. 2005, Research Assistant, Hydropower and Digital Urban Simulation Center, Wuhan, China
  • Sep. 2000 – Sep. 2003, Research Assistant, Engineering Computation and Simulation Institute, Wuhan, China  

Project Experience 

  • “Parallel Computation Environment Development for Simulation Software Integration”, Engineering Computation and Simulation Institute, 2000-2003
    Scope: The theory and its implementation of general parallel/distributed computation platform based mesh library PESIA were proposed in this work. 
  • “Intelligent Health Monitoring of Aerospace Structures using Wireless Sensor Networks”, National Science Foundation, 2004-2006
    Scope: The work is targeted at developing an active distributed smart sensing system for quantifying and visualizing location and sizing of damage in aerospace structures in near real-time.
  •  “Large-span spatial structures Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks”, Zhejiang University, China National Science Foundation, 2006-2007
    Scope: Along with the rapid development and wide application of large-span spatial structures, safety of these structures is becoming a major concern for owners and structural engineers. In this project, a detailed description of a new developed wireless sensor system including its framework, components and technology challenges is presented. Preliminary laboratory vibration tests are conducted to verify the feasibility of the system.
  • “Path-compression Based Protocol for Distributed Mutual”, NC State University, 2006
    Scope: The project implements a token based distributed mutual exclusion algorithm on multithread Solaris Unix Operating System. The algorithm assumes a fully connected, reliable physical network and a directed acyclic graph structured logical network.
  • “Preemptive Real-Time Scheduler for AVR/M16C Micro-controllers”, NC State University, 2006
    Scope: In this project, we modified the scheduler to add preemptive features to the real time kernel for M16C/62P kit. We implemented two kinds of scheduling policy, rate monotonic and earlier deadline first. The former has a fixed priority and the later has a dynamic priority while the tasks are running.

Publications/Presentations

[1] F. Zhang, C. Wang, Y.Y. Cai, Y.J. Zhu, 2003, "Mesh-Tech Applied In Complicated Geomorphology Simulation of Digital Watershed System", Chinese Journal of Computer Simulation.
[2] F. Zhang, G.Y. Deng, 2005, "Probabilistic Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks", Proceedings - 2005 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing.
[3] F. Zhang, C. Wang, 2005, "Piezoelectric wafer model and its application in structural health monitoring", Chinese Journal of Sensors and Actuators.
[4] G.Y. Deng, F. Zhang, 2006, "A Power management for probabilistic clock synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks", The Proceeding of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology.
[5] LUO Yao-zhi, SHEN Yan-bin, WANG Bin, RAO Li, TONG Ruo-fei, ZHANG Feng, YUAN Fuh-gwo, LIU Lei, 2006, "Development of a wireless sensor system potentially applied to large-span spatial structures", The Proceeding of 4th China-Japan-US Symposium on Structural Control Monitoring.
[6] G.Y. Deng, F. Zhang, 2006, "Time Series Synchronization Algorithm for Wireless Damage Detection sensor network", Chinese Journal of Sensors and Actuators.
[7] Q. Wang, F. Zhang, 2006, "Collaborative algorithm in wireless sensor networks", Chinese Journal of Sensors and Actuators.
[8] Y. Liu, F. Zhang, 2005, "Piezoelectric wafer-based damage localization using ellipses method", Chinese Journal of Sensors and Actuators.
[9] L. Liu, F.G. Yuan and F. Zhang, 2005, "Development of wireless smart sensor for structural health monitoring", Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and Materials.
[10] L. Liu, F.G. Yuan and F. Zhang, 2004, "High Speed Extension Board Using CPLD on MICA Mote for Wireless Smart Sensors", International Symposium on Network and Center-Based Research For Smart Structures Technologies and Earthquake Engineering, 2004.

Honors and Awards:

  • Scholarship, General Hugh Shelton Leadership Forum, US, 2006
  • Member, National Scholars Honor Society, US, 2006
  • Fellowship, China Scholarship Council (CSC), China, 2005
  • Research Paper Grant, Huazhong University of S&T, China, 2004

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