Xinmiao Zhang received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is currently a Professor at The Ohio State University and was a Timothy E. and Allison L. Schroeder Assistant Professor (2005-2010) and Associate Professor (2010-2013) at Case Western Reserve University. Between her academic careers, she was a Senior Technologist at Western Digital/SanDisk (2013-2017).  She is also a member of the core faculty of the Translational Data Analytics Institute of The Ohio State University. She held visiting positions at Polytechnic University of Turin (2024), the University of Washington, Seattle (2011-2013), and Qualcomm (2008).

Prof. Zhang is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2009, the College of Engineering Lumley Research Award at The Ohio State University 2022, the Bob Owens Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Best Paper Award at ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2004, and Best Paper Award at International SanDisk Technology Conference 2016. Prof. Zhang was elected the Vice President-Technical Activities of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) for the 2022-2023 term and served on the Board of Governors of CASS for the 2019-2021 term. She is a Fellow of IEEE. She was also the Chair (2021-2022) and a Vice-Chair (2017-2020) of the Data Storage Technical Committee (DSTC) of the IEEE Communications Society. Prof. Zhang has served on the organization and technical committees of many conferences, including ISCAS, SiPS, ICC, GLOBECOM, NVMW, and GLSVLSI. She is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (TCAS-I) 2024-2025. She has also been an Associate Editor of TCAS-I 2010-2019 and IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS) since 2019. She is a recipient of the Best Associate Editor Award in 2013 and 2021.