Dr. Xinghang Zhang, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering is a recipient of the 2013-14 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Awards. Dr. Zhang was awarded the Holleran-Bowman Faculty Fellowship by Dr. Katherine Banks, Dean of the Dwight Look College of Engineering.
Dr. Zhang joined Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in January 2005. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. He was also awarded the prestigious Director Funded Postdoctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he spent approximately two years working on metallic nanolayers. He was awarded NSF Early Career Award in 2007. Dr. Zhang became a tenured Associate Professor in 2011.
Dr. Zhang is an excellent teacher and has achieved international recognition as an expert in several critical research fields on mechanical behavior of nanotwinned metals (funded by DoE-Office of Basic Energy Science), radiation damage in nanostructured metals (funded by NSF), hydrogen storage in Mg based nanolayers (funded by NSF), and magnetic shape memory alloy thin films (funded by NSF). Among 8 of his former Ph.D. students, 2 have become faculty in China, including Peking University, 5 are at DOE National Laboratory as technical staff members or postdocs, and 1 works at Intel Corp. His group has published over 130 journal articles with more than 2900 citations. He is also one of the key readers for an international materials science journal, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A.