People

Group Culture

Our research group covers a full spectrum of personnel. Members include undergraduate and graduate students, a post-doctoral research associate, and a visiting professor. Each member is unique for the group.

Unlike some other research groups that run like corporations, our group runs in a more casual way. We value each member’s personal learning, growth, as well as their work-life balance. We help each other in any possible way. We deeply believe that it’s the only way to keep our research environment healthy and successful.

Please use the dropdown menu to know more about our current and past group members.

Being an advisor is not simply a job of teaching and educating. To me, it is my passion. You need to treat your students as your children – help them learn, guide them to grow, give them freedom to develop themselves, trust them, and encourage them when they make mistakes (I believe learning from failures is the key to personal growth).

Xi-Cheng Zhang

Group Photos

01/11/2023 – Sending Off Kareem to Apple

Left-to-right: Jiacheng, Kareem, Jessica, and Mervin.

01/10/2023 – Group Activity at Nosh

In the order of appearance: Mervin, Kareem, Steven, and Zhigong. Video shot by Jiacheng.

10/07/2022 – Group Activity at Simply Crêpes

Left-to-right: Mervin, Kareem, Jiacheng, and Yiwen.

09/16/2022: Group Activity at Radio Social

Left-to-right: Zhigong, Steven, Jiaming (not a group member), Kareem, Jiacheng, Mervin, and Yiwen.

06/23/2021 – Family Gathering at Tsingtao House

Left-to-right: Wendy (Mrs. Zhang), Prof. Zhang, Steven, Jiacheng, Justin, Kelsey, Fang, Mervin, Yiwen, Jiapeng, Prof. Dai, and Mrs. Dai.

May 2020 – Remote Group Meeting due to COVID-19

Left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Yuqi, Yiwen, Prof. Zhang, Prof. Dai, Fang, Jiapeng, Jiacheng, Steven, Mervin, and Kareem.

08/02/2019 – Group Party with Families

2019 – Zhang Research Group as of 2019

Left-to-right: Greg, Prof. Dai, Jiapeng, Qi, Haimu, Mervin, Shenghan, Yiwen, Kareem, and Prof. Zhang.

04/13/2012 – Zhang Research Group as of 2012

Left-to-right: George, Kang, Xuan, Leva, Prof. Zhang, Jing, Fabrizio, Dr. Dai, and Lei Gao.