Kechen Zhang is an associate professor of biomedical engineering and neuroscience in the Whiting School of Engineering and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is known for his research on theoretical and computational neuroscience, and heads up the Theoretical Neuroscience Laboratory is currently engaged in mathematical analysis and computer simulations to study the nervous system at multiple levels.
Zhang has published more than 200 papers for academic journals, including the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and Nature, as well as dozens of conference papers and several National Science Foundation grant applications. He served on the National Science Foundation computational neuroscience program advisory panel in 2005.
He received his undergraduate degree in biophysics and physiology from Beijing University, his master’s from Beijing University, and his doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. Zhang completed postdoctoral training in computational neurobiology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2002.