EECS Department

VLSI Architecture design for Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Cryptosystems and Medical Appplications.

Xinmiao Zhang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, in 2005. Since then, she has been with Case Western Reserve University, where she is currently a Timothy E. and Allison L. Schroeder Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Ms. Zhang is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2004. She also won the First Prize in Student Paper Contest at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers 2004. She is the co-editor of the book “Wireless Security and Cryptography: Specifications and Implementations” (CRC Press, 2007) and the guest editor for Springer MONET Journal Special Issue on “Next Generation Hardware Architectures for Secure Mobile Computing”. She has served on technical program committees of GLSVLSI and the reviewer committees of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

1. X. Zhang, “Further Exploring the Strength of Prediction in the Factorization of Soft-decision Reed-Solomon Decoding,” to appear IEEE Trans. on VLSI System.
2. X. Zhang, “Reduced Complexity Interpolation Architecture for Soft-Decision Reed-Solomon Decoding,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI System, vol. 14(10), pp. 1156-1161, Oct. 2006.
3. X. Zhang and K. K. Parhi, “Fast Factorization Architecture in Soft-Decision Reed-Solomon Decoding,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 13(4), pp. 413-426, Apr. 2005.
4. N. Sklavos and X. Zhang, Wireless Security and Cryptography: Specifications and Implementations, CRC press, Mar. 2007.
5. X. Zhang and J. Zhu, “Low-complexity Interpolation Architecture for Soft-decision Reed-Solomon Decoding,” to appear ISCAS 2007.
6. X. Zhang, “High-speed Factorization Architecture for Soft-decision Reed-Solomon Decoding,” Proc. of ICCD, San Jose, CA, Oct. 2006.
7. X. Zhang, “Partial Parallel Factorization in Soft-Decision Reed-Solomon Decoding,” Proc. of ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI, Philadelphia, PA, Apr. 2006.