Professor Yuhao ZHANG
張宇昊
YMHKEng [2026]
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Associate Director, Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits, The University of Hong Kong
- Senior Member, IEEE
- Chair, Power Semiconductor and IC Technical Committee, IEEE Electron Device Society, 2026
- HE Research Fellowship, 2025, (何享健青年科学家奖)
- Young Scientist Award of Compound Semiconductor Week, 2025, (presented to a researcher under the age of 40 in the field of compound semiconductors each year)
- U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2024
- IEEE E. George Smith Award, 2023, 2019
- Faculty Fellow Award of Virginia Tech Engineering, 2022
- U. S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2021
- MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories Doctoral Dissertation Seminar Award, 2017
- Senior Member, IEEE
Yuhao Zhang is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Co-Founder/Associate Director of the HKU Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (CASIC). He was previously a tenured Associate Professor at Virginia Tech and a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, where he also earned his Ph.D. and S.M. degrees. He is a recognized academic leader in power semiconductors, power electronics, and wide/ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor devices. He has authored over 250 papers, secured substantial research funding from government and industry sources, and earned numerous prestigious honours.
PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS
Peking University
yuhzhang@hku.hk
Telephone Number (Office)
39171913