Team Members

Le Zheng, Associate Professor

Email: lzheng@shu.edu.cn

Personal Profile:

His main research interests include integrated circuit design, biomedical circuit design, and biosensing systems. With 8 years of industrial experience, he has held important positions in two American biotechnology companies, accumulated rich experience in the development of complex biomedical systems, and successfully developed the industry-leading high-throughput single molecule detection chip and rapid nucleic acid detection system. The research results have received more than $90 million in government funds and private investments. He has 7 SCI papers in related fields and 23 US patents. He has been the lead researchers in 3 US government research fund projects. He has been a member of the technical committee of several international conferences and has served as a reviewer of various international journals.

Prof. Zheng’s research group recruits top graduate students in microelectronics, biochemistry, materials, machinery and other related majors; and welcomes young teachers and postdoctoral students with relevant scientific research and industry experience to join the team.

Research Direction:

1. Analog integrated circuit design

2. Biomedical circuits

3. Biosensing system

4. Memristor modeling and associated hardware accelerator circuits

5. Wearable/Implantable biochips

Educational Background:

2015, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz.

2009, M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Irvine.

2007, B.S., Microelectronics, Fudan University.

Work Experience:

December 2023-now, Associate Professor, Shanghai University, China.

October 2021-July 2023, Principal Electrical Engineer, Detect Inc., USA.

December 2016-July 2021, Principal Electrical Engineer, Roswell Biotechnology, USA.

March 2015-November 2016, Research Engineer, HP Laboratory, USA

Scientific research achievements and awards:

He has published 7 SCI papers, 14 international conference papers. He holds 23 US patents. He serves as a reviewer of Applied Physics A, Journal of Physics D, IEEE TCAS, IEEE TCAS-I, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE TVLSI and other journals, and as a member of the technical committee of conferences including IEEE SAS, IEEE MWSCAS, IEEE CSICS and IEEE ASICON. His research results were reported by Forbes magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo News and other media outlets.

Representative Results:

1.D.A.Hall, N.Ananthapad Manabhan, C.Choi, L.Zheng , P.P.Pan, C.Von Jutrzenka, T.Nguyen, J.Rizo, M.Weinstein, R.Lobaton, P.Sinha, T.Sauerbrey, C.Sigala, K.Bailey, P.Mudondo, A.R.Chaudhuri, S.Severi, C.W.Fuller, J.M.Tour, S.Jin, P.W.Mola, B.Merriman, “A scalable CMOS molecular electronics chip for single-molecule biosensing”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 16(6), pp.1030–1043, 2022.

2.D.A.Hall, N.Ananthapad Manabhan, C.Choi, L.Zheng , P.P.Pan, C.W.Fuller, P.P.Padayatti, C.Gardner, D.Gebhardt, Z.Majzik, P.Sinha, P.W.Mola, B.Merriman, “A CMOS molecular electronics chip for single-molecule biosensing”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2022.

3.C.W.Fuller, P.S.Padayatti, H.Abderrahim, L.Adamiak, N.Alagar, N.Ananthapadmanabhan, J.Baek, S.Chinni, C.Choi, K.J.Delaney, R.Dubielzig, J.Frkanec, C.Garcia, C.Gardner, D.Gebhardt, T.Geiser, Z.Gutierrez, D.A.Hall, A.P.Hodges, G.Hou, S.Jain, T.Jones, R.Lobaton, Z.Majzik, A.Marte, P.Mohan, P.Mola, P.Mudondo, J.Mullinix, T.Nguyen, F.Ollinger, S.Orr, Y.Ouyang, P.Pan, N.Park, D.Porras, K.Prabhu, C.Reese, T.Ruel, T.Sauerbrey, J.R.Sawyer, P.Sinha, J.Tu, AG Venkatesh, S.VijayKumar, L.Zheng , S.Jin, J.M.Tour, G.M.Church, P.W.Mola, B.Merriman, “Molecular electronics sensors on a scalable semiconductor chip: A platform for single-molecule measurement of binding kinetics and enzyme activity”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.119, no.5, 2022.

4.C.E.Graves, C.Li, X.Sheng, W.Ma, S.R.Chalamalasetti, D.Miller, J.S.Ignowski, B.Buchanan, L.Zheng , S.Lam, X.Li, L.Kiyama, M.Foltin, M.Hardy, J.P.Strachan, “Memristor TCAMs accelerate regular expression matching for network intrusion detection”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol.18, pp.963-970, 2019.

5.X.Sheng, C.E.Graves, S.Kumar, X.Li, B.Buchanan, L.Zheng , S.Lam, C.Li, J.P.Strachan, “Low-conductance and multilevel CMOS-integrated nanoscale oxide memristors”, Advanced Electronic Materials, 1800876, 2019.