{"id":11,"date":"2020-11-25T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/zhang\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:09:18","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/jzhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"11\" class=\"elementor elementor-11\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-49bcd8b8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"49bcd8b8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41738cdf\" data-id=\"41738cdf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1bd37c4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1bd37c4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Junshan Zhang is a professor in the ECE Department at University of California Davis. He founded <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ucd-dare.github.io\/\">Davis AI, Robotics and Edge Research Group<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p><p>He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of ECE at Purdue University in Aug. 2000, and was on the faculty of ASU from 2000 to 2021. His research interests fall in the general field of AI\/ML and data science, including edge AI, physical AI and robot learning, Agentic AI,\u00a0 World Model, reinforcement learning, continual learning, network optimization and control, with applications in connected and automated vehicles,\u00a0 5G and beyond, wireless networks,\u00a0 Internet of Things (IoT), and smart grid. He is fortunate to be one of the pioneering researchers in the areas of edge computing and edge AI, cross-layer optimization of wireless networks, and\u00a0 cooperative relaying.<\/p><p><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-01c1cae );color: var( --e-global-color-text );font-size: var( --e-global-typography-primary-font-size );font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-primary-font-weight )\">Prof. Zhang is a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-01c1cae );color: var( --e-global-color-text );font-size: var( --e-global-typography-primary-font-size );font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-primary-font-weight )\">Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (class of 2024) and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-01c1cae );color: var( --e-global-color-text );font-size: var( --e-global-typography-primary-font-size );font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-primary-font-weight )\">Fellow of the IEEE (class of 2012). He is\u00a0<\/span>a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2005 and the NSF CAREER award in 2003. He received the IEEE Wireless Communication Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2016. His papers have won a few awards, including the Best Student paper at WiOPT 2018, the Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award of ACM SIGMETRICS\/IFIP Performance 2016, the Best Paper Runner-up Award of IEEE INFOCOM 2009 and IEEE INFOCOM 2014, and the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2008 and ICC 2017. Building on his research findings, he co-founded Smartiply Inc in 2015, an edge computing startup company delivering boosted network connectivity and embedded AI for IoT applications.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a06dc9f\" data-id=\"4a06dc9f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61aa54de elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"61aa54de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ece.ucdavis.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/dgvnsk8091\/files\/media\/images\/jzhang1.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fce058f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6fce058f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Junshan Zhang<\/strong><br \/>Professor<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a262a8e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a262a8e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.ucdavis.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a><br \/>University of California, Davis<br \/>Davis, CA 95616<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f221abd elementor-icon-list--layout-traditional elementor-list-item-link-full_width elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-list\" data-id=\"3f221abd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-list.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"elementor-icon-list-items\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:%20\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-envelope\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text\">jazh@ucdavis.edu<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"tel:%20\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-phone\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text\">530-752-7395<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junshan Zhang is a professor in the ECE Department at University of California Davis. He founded Davis AI, Robotics and Edge Research Group\u00a0. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of ECE at Purdue University in Aug. 2000, and was on the faculty of ASU from 2000 to 2021. 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