Program Manager
Microsystems Technology Office
Huanan Zhang, Ph.D., joined DARPA in January 2025 as a program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office.
His research interests include advanced semiconductor processing technologies and microsystems for biological applications.
Prior to DARPA, he served as a research associate professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah.
Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ideas under incubation
- Enhanced Microsystems: What are the challenges, potentially new approaches, and anticipated impacts of chemical and biological interactions with microsystems so that microsystems not only survive chemically and biologically harsh treatments but are enhanced by them?
- Increase Complexity of Inorganic Materials: What are the materials, properties, processes, and controls necessary to create new inorganic materials with precise composition and structural accuracy to support the development of advanced microsystems?
- Medical Microsystems: How could internal treatment be administered (such as stopping internal bleeding) without surgery through focused, non-invasive energy delivery with microsystems assisting biological processes?