Dr. Zhongfeng Wang obtained the Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2000. He is a currently a professor and the head of the School of Integrated Circuits at Sun Yat-sen University in China. He has worked for many years at Nanjing University, China, as a Distinguished Professor since 2016. Previously he worked for Broadcom Corporation, California, from 2007 to 2016 as a technical director. Even earlier, he worked for National Semiconductor Corporation and Oregon State University successively.

Dr. Wang is a world-recognized expert on Low-Power/High-Speed VLSI Design for Signal Processing Systems. He has published over 400 technical papers with numerous best paper awards received from IEEE major conferences and transactions, including the Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award in 2007. He has filed over 100 patent applications with tens of them granted in either USA or China. In the past, he had deeply participated in many commercial chip designs. In addition, he has served as Associate Editor for multiple transactions of IEEE. Meanwhile, he has contributed significantly to the industrial standards. So far, his technical proposals and key ideas have been adopted by more than 20 international networking standards. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of AAIA. His current research interests are in the area of Optimized VLSI Design for Digital Communications and Deep Learning.