Lei Zhang
Assistant Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolLei Zhang is an assistant professor of information systems at UMBC with a decade of experience bridging software engineering research and industry practice. He earned his PhD from McMaster and completed a postdoc at Ryerson, focusing on quantum software engineering and applied post-quantum cryptography alongside deep learning applications. Prior to academia he spent five years in professional software development building drivers and mobile/embedded applications, and he now co‑founds Quarta to bring research insights toward real-world products. Lei combines rigorous analytic performance modeling from his doctoral work with hands-on systems engineering, which informs his interdisciplinary research agenda. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he is notable for translating emerging tech (quantum computing) into practical software engineering questions rather than treating it as purely theoretical.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at McMaster UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (20)
python10
sdk10
quantum-computing10
qiskit10
source-sdk9
quantum-programming-language9
post-quantum7
cryptography6
crypto6
post-quantum-cryptography5
crowd5
simulator5
simulation5
simulation-framework4
data-structure3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zhangl64/Computer-Science
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
technical-interviewscppsciencejobcomputer-science
miranska/restore
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 8 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 months
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