Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Alabama A&M University

Dr. Zhigang Xiao is a professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Alabama A&M University (AAMU). He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2004. His research interests include nanoscale electronic material and device fabrication, and microelectronics/VLSI circuit design. Since joining the EE faculty, Dr. Xiao has developed the AAMU-EE clean room with his colleagues and received multiple major instrument awards from DoD and NSF to build the clean room fabrication facility and has used the clean room facility to train hundreds of students in the micro and nanoscale semiconductor electronic device fabrication, who have become engineers in industries or government agencies. Dr. Xiao’s research and teaching have been sponsored by the federal funding agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of Energy (DoE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (DoA) and industries including Apple and Intel. Dr. Xiao published 50+ scientific papers and made 100+ presentations at national and international conferences. He is a member of AVS, IEEE, and MRS.