Year: Graduate Student
Major: Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences
Hometown: Gan Su, China
Scholarships: University of Michigan Rackham Presidential Fellowship Award 2011 - 2012, Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (U of Michigan) Fellowship 2010 - 2011
Awards: Richard and Eleanor Towner Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award 2011/12, Best Presentation Award 2011 MIPSE, Engineering Graduate Student Symposium 2011

Peng Zhang's current research focuses on the modeling of phenomenology of surface and interface sciences, including electrical and thermal contacts, roughness-induced enhanced surface heating, surface flashover and discharge, field enhancements, and surface instability in pinched plasmas. Prior to his entry to UM, he worked in NTU on the transport of electron pulses in a vacuum nano-diode.