Specialties: microwave engineering, high speed packaging, and numerical analysis. Specifically: design, modeling and measurement methodologies for: 1. opto-digital linkages; 2. Analog and mixed signal IC validation; 3. High speed I/O design and validation; 4. high frequency broadband systems; 5. high-speed packaging and interconnects; 6. reconfigurable microwave matching networks; 7. reconfigurable and smart antennae; 8. compact microwave passive circuitry; 9. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification); 10. High volume ultra high speed socket design; 11. Computational Electromagnetism; 12. More than 24 peer reviewed journal and conference publications; 13. Four patent applications, one trade secret, and a distinguished invention award.

Senior Technologist @ Research on various high-speed IO defect detection methodologies; Research on high-speed test criteria and electrical performance spec; Initiate, analyze, expound, and relate various strategic research to the organization; Mentor junior engineers; Research on ultra wide band 4-port on wafer calibration methods to account for signal to signal crosstalk; High-speed I/O test fixture development; From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Senior Staff Engineer @ Technical leadership pipeline candidate Research concerning: PCIe 4 channel study; 3-D package for interoperability; RFID for board information retrieve and inventory management; DDR4 package design and modeling; Universal test methodology for high volume production; Traveling wave optical device modeling; Silicon Through Via for millimeter wave application; Ultra high-speed high volume validation socket; High-speed I/O defect detection; Socket model EM computation simplification. From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Senior Research Scientist @ Research concerning the performance of opto-electronic linkages; Measurement methodologies for high frequency broadband interconnects and equalizer circuits; Invention of reconfigurable high speed interconnect; Invention of Integrated Optical-electrical test system architecture. Technical leader of high-speed, high density opto-electronic test platform. From March 2013 to Present (2 years 10 months) Research Scientist @ Electrical modeling and measurement methodology of Digital-RF-Photonic link From December 2009 to Present (6 years 1 month) Graduate Fellow and Research Assistant @ Material characterization methodology From August 2004 to December 2009 (5 years 5 months) Research Intern @ Flexiable material application in high-speed interconnects and packaging Jitter amplification mechanism in loss channel Crosstalk impact from various sources From September 2008 to September 2009 (1 year 1 month) RF Design and Test Engineer @ Diverse work experience in both the Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory and Solid State Microwave Laboratories in the Network Division. From February 2001 to October 2002 (1 year 9 months) System Engineer B @ Designed automatic testers for RF power metrology system. This work focused on the methodology of the RF power measurement and the power sensor design. From September 1999 to February 2001 (1 year 6 months) Specialist @ numerical programming From August 1998 to September 1999 (1 year 2 months) Research Assistant @ Research of automatic front-end rock fragment wheeled loading machines (under contract to The Caterpillar Corporation). • Artificially intelligent control algorithms for the loader; • Electrical-mechanical sensors for the loaders; • Design of experimental soil-bin for loader buckets. From August 1996 to August 1998 (2 years 1 month)

Ph.D. Dec 2009, Electrical Engineering @ University of Arizona From 2006 to 2009 M.S. May 2006, Electrical Engineering @ University of ArizonaMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Mechanical-Electronic Engineering, Master @ Chongqing University From 1987 to 1990 The fifth middle school of Changsha Zhen Zhou is skilled in: Electromagnetics, RF circuit design and validation, Antenna design and measurement, Measurements, Simulations, Antennas, RF circuits, Validation, Analog Circuit Design, Cadence, Circuit Design, Microwave, PCB design, Analog, Semiconductors