Wen Zhang
Phone: 1-213-740-1115
Address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of
Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484
Email: wenzhang@usc.edu
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l Ph.D. Physics; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southern California (USC) (08/2004¡ªpresent)
GPA (up to present): 3.97/4
l B.S. Applied Physics (major); B.S. Applied Electronics (Minor); Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) (09/2000¡ª06/2004)
GPA: 3.8/4; Ranking: 1/54.
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
l Computational Condensed Matter Theory Group, USC, 01/2006¡ªpresent
l Optical Communications Laboratory, USC, 05/2005-12/2005
Project: Pattern dependence of data distortion in slow-light elements.
l Laboratory of Optics and Photonics, SJTU, 02/2004¡ª06/2004
Project: The Loss Property of Y-junction waveguides (Thesis for Bachelor¡¯s Degree)
l State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Network, SJTU, 03/2003¡ª09/2003
Project: Broad Band Fiber-based Optical Parametric Amplifier
l Shanghai Institute of Laser Technology, 07/2003
Project: Laser medical equipment (Internship)
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Teaching Assistant:
l Physics for the Life Sciences, USC (Fall/2004; Summer/2005; Fall/2005~Spring/2007)
l Fundamentals of Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism, USC (Spring/2005)
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HONORS:
l Summer Research Award Fellowship (2006)
l Honorable Excellent Graduate of Shanghai from SJTU (2004)
l The First Award each year (Sep. 2000 - Jun. 2003) in SJTU.
Ø Dongs¡¯ Orient Scholarship (2001)
Ø Samsung Scholarship (2002)
Ø Samsung Scholarship (2003)
l ¡®Exceptional Student of SJTU¡¯ (2001, 2003)
l ¡®Three-Good Student of SJTU¡¯ (2001)
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1. Wen Zhang, Rohit Singh, Noah Bray-Ali, Stephan Haas, ¡°Scaling analysis of magnetic nanoparticles¡±, submitted to PRB (2007)
2. A. Hamma, W. Zhang, S. Haas, D. A. Lidar, ¡°Entanglement, fidelity and topological entropy in a quantum phase transition to topological order¡±, submitted to PRL (2007)
3. Lin Zhang, Ting Luo, Changyuan Yu, Wen Zhang and Alan E. Willner, ¡°Pattern dependence of data distortion in slow-light elements¡±, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1754-1760, July 2007
4. A. E. Willner, L. Zhang, T. Luo, C. Yu, W. Zhang and Y. Wang, ¡°Data bit distortion induced by slow light in optical communication systems,¡± in Proc. the Photonics West 2006, (SPIE, January 21-26, San Jose, CA, USA, 2006), vol. 6130, pp. 175-182. Invited paper.
5. Lin Zhang, Ting Luo, Wen Zhang, Changyuan Yu, Yan Wang, A.E. Willner, ¡°Optimizing operating conditions to reduce data pattern dependence induced by slow light elements¡±, Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), March 2006
6. W. Zhang, C. Wang, J. Shu, C. Jiang and W. Hu, ¡°Design of Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers By Genetic Algorithm¡±, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 16, no. 7, Jul.2004