Dr. Zhang has raised $18,294,326 research funding from NSF, DOD, Texas ATP, NIST, SME and other government and industry agencies, in which about $9.28 million are cash funds from US agencies, and $9.15 million from Chinese agencies (all cash funding are all competitive research grants), and $0.7 million are in-kind capital equipment funds. Currently, he has three research proposals with close to 1 million requests are under review by NSF. He served as over 50 major invited speakers for industry and government agencies and established wide collaborative linkages with industry. He has graduated 23 PhD students and 23 Master students and served more than 50 graduate committee members. He is associate editor in three international journals and serves as advisory board member in the IJAMT. He was elected as Fellow of ASME in 2008, Fellow of CIRP in 2010 and Fellow of SME in 2016.