ECE alumnus Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

SEAS and ECE alumnus Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang (DSc ’89) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas and address issues of importance to the nation and the world. With his election to the Academy, Dr. Zhang joins the company of notable members such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Upon receiving word of his election, Dr. Zhang thanked his former academic advisors, Dr. Raymond Pickholtz (professor emeritus, ECE) and Dr. Murray Loew (BME), “for laying the foundation for my academic research.” Dr. Zhang will be inducted into the Academy at a ceremony in Cambridge, MA, in October.