Zhengya Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley Wireless Research Center
2108 Allston Way, Suite 200
Berkeley, CA  94704-1302
Tel
: (510) 666-3125

Email: zyzhang [at] eecs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu

My research interest is in high-performance and low-power VLSI architectures of baseband communication systems. I am currently involved with building efficient multicarrier digital baseband systems and low-density parity-check code (LDPC) decoders. You can find brief abstracts of our research here and here. I am a member of the Digital Circuits Design Group at Berkeley Wireless Research Center. My research advisor is Professor B. Nikolic. I also work extensively with Dr. L. Dolecek, Professor V. Anantharam, and Professor M. J. Wainwright.

Education:

Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (expected graduation: December 2008)
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

B.A.Sc
. in Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

Papers:

[9] Z. Zhang, L. Dolecek, B. Nikolic, V. Anantharam, M. J. Wainwright, "Design of LDPC decoders for low error rate performance," submitted, March 2008.

[8] L. Dolecek, Z. Zhang, V. Anantharam, M. J. Wainwright, B. Nikolic, "Analysis of absorbing sets and fully absorbing sets of array-based LDPC codes," submitted, February 2008.

[7] Z. Zhang, L. Dolecek, B. Nikolic, V. Anantharam, M. J. Wainwright, "Lowering LDPC error floors by postprocessing," to appear, March 2008.

[6] P. Lee, L. Dolecek, Z. Zhang, V. Anantharam, B. Nikolic, M. J. Wainwright, "Error floors in LDPC Codes: fast simulation, bounds and hardware emulation," in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, July 2008.

[5] Z. Zhang, R. Winoto, A. Bahai, B. Nikolic, "Peak-to-average power ratio reduction in an FDM broadcast system," in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Shanghai China, October 2007.

[4] L. Dolecek, Z. Zhang, M. J. Wainwright, V. Anantharam, B. Nikolic, "Evaluation of the low frame error rate performance of LDPC codes using importance sampling," in Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Lake Tahoe CA, September 2007.

[3] Z. Zhang, L. Dolecek, M. J. Wainwright, V. Anantharam, B. Nikolic, “Quantization effects of low-density parity-check decoders,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, Glasgow UK, June 2007.

[2] L. Dolecek, Z. Zhang, V. Anantharam, M. J. Wainwright, B. Nikolic, “Analysis of absorbing sets for array-based LDPC codes,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, Glasgow UK, June 2007.

[1] Z. Zhang, L. Dolecek, B. Nikolic, V. Anantharam, M. J. Wainwright, “Investigation of error floors of structured low-density parity-check codes by hardware emulation,” in Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Francisco CA, November 2006. (Best Paper Award Finalist)
 

Project reports:

[5] Q. Zhu, Z. Zhang, A. Pinto, A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, “On-chip networks modeling and simulation,” December 2003.

[4] Z. Zhang, Z. Guo, “Design of a fully differential transconductance amplifier,” May 2004.

[3] Z. Zhang, Z. Guo, “Active leakage control with sleep transistors and body bias,” May 2004.

[2] P. Droz, Z. Guo, Z. Zhang, P. Monat, “Design of high-speed chip-to-chip electrical interface,” May 2004.

[1] Z. Zhang, “Study of permutation matrices based LDPC code constructions,” May 2005.