Dr. Haibo Zeng has joined the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an assistant professor. Zeng will work with the department’s Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications. His research interests include design methodology, analysis and optimization for embedded systems, real-time systems, and cyber physical systems. Zeng has co-authored two books, “Embedded Systems Development–From Functional Models to Implementations,” and “Understanding and Using the Controller Area Network Communication Protocol: Theory and Practice,” and has co-authored 17 peer-reviewed articles. He has more than 30 conference publications and earned three best paper citations, two at the IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems in 2009 and 2011, and one at the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems in 2013. He served as editor for two special IEEE publications: “System Level Design of Automotive Electronics/Software” in 2012 and “Automotive Embedded Systems” in 2010. Zeng earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. He previously served as an assistant professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 2011 - 2014 and was a researcher and then a senior researcher at General Motors from 2008 - 2011.