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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, Civil Engineering, in process
  • M.S.,   Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Electrical Engineering, 2003
  • B.S.,   Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Vehicle Electrical Engineering, 2000

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 

  • “Water Resources Assessment, Planning, and Management in the Southeast US Using Decision Support System Driven by Climate-based Hydrologic Forecasts,” sponsored by the NOAA OGP Climate Prediction Program for the Americas (CPPA), NASA, NWS Southeast River Forecast Center, and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (2006-2008).

Scope: Development and implementation of an integrated forecast-decision system for the Southeast US. Establishment of a participatory decision process for water resources management. Joint project with Princeton University, the Southeast River Forecast Center, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, and the US Geological Survey.

  • “Information and Planning Tools for the Zhejiang River Basin”, sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources (2006-2008).

Scope: Development and transfer of modern information and planning tools for the Zhejiang River Basin in south east China.
“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.

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