June Zhang

June Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a position she has held since 2024 after serving as Assistant Professor from 2017. Her research focuses on network science and system dynamics, with applications spanning bioinformatics and social processes.

Her educational background includes:

• B.S. with Highest Honor in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University
• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2015)

Dr. Zhang investigates how individual adaptations and interactions shape large-scale system behaviors, specializing in graph signal processing, complex systems, and statistical machine learning. Her work integrates nonlinear dynamical systems with biological applications like population genetics modeling and phylodynamics, alongside social phenomena such as information diffusion.

Her scientific recognitions include:

• Georgia Hope Scholarship
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Microsoft Azure Research Award (2015-2016)

As co-Principal Investigator for the NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems, she leads cutting-edge research while maintaining prior interdisciplinary experience from her ORISE Research Fellowship at the CDC's Viral Hepatitis Division (2016-2017).