Assistant Professor ECE Phone:(848) 445-9139 Email:yqz.zhang@rutgers.edu Office:CoRE 719 Education PhD in Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2018 BS in Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2011 Honors EECS Rising Stars Workshop at Stanford University, Young Investigator Lecture Series at California Institute of TechnologyProfessional Affiliations Postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Computer Science and the TRIPODS data science center at Cornell UniversityResearch Interests Dr. Zhang's research leverages physical models in data driven computations, convex and nonconvex optimization, solving problems in computer vision, machine learning, signal processing.