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Prof Wei Zhang

School of Engineering

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Email: W.Zhang@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 2868

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ORCID

● Professor of Nanoelectronics.
● Leader of the memory devices research at LJMU, including resistive switching memory and Flash memory devices and threshold switching devices, for applications in the field of non-volatile memory, in-memory computing, and neuromorphic computing.
● Leader of the collaboration with the world-leading IMEC Memory Device Consortium including Intel, Micron, Samsung, Hynix, Toshiba and SanDisk.
● Principal investigator and co-investigator of a number of research projects with a total value of more than £4.5 million, including:
• Eight EPSRC research grants on RRAM, MOSFETs, Variability, and SILC.
• Four official collaboration agreements with IMEC on RRAM and 3D Flash memory.
• One HEFCE Promising Researcher Grant.
● Research outputs are rated as international excellence and above in Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, with one Impact Case Study also rated as international excellence and above.
● Published over one hundred fifty papers predominantly in benchmarking journals for REF and flagship international conferences such as IEEE Transactions, IEDM, VLSI and IRPS.
● Supervisor of fourteen PhD students.

Degrees

Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, PhD

Academic appointments

Professor of Nanoelectronics, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014 - present

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