Zhi-Li Zhang received the B.S. degree in computer science from Nanjing
University, China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science
from the University of Massachusetts.  In 1997 he joined the Computer
Science and Engineering faculty at the University of Minnesota, where
he is currently a Full Professor. He has held visiting positions at
Sprint Advanced Technology Labs; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;
Fujitsu Labs of America, Microsoft Research China, and INRIA,
Sophia-Antipolis, France.


Dr. Zhang's research interests lie broadly in computer communication
and networks, Internet technology, multimedia and emerging
applications. His past research was centered on the analysis,
design and development of scalable Internet QoS solutions to support
performance-demanding multimedia applications. His current research
thrusts focus primarily on i) building  higly scalable, resilient
and secure Internet infrastructure and mechanisms to enhance
Internet service availability, reliability and security; and on ii)
developing  next-generation, service-oriented, manageable 
Internet architectures to provide better support for creation,
deployment, operations and and management of value-added Internet
services and underlying networks.


Dr. Zhang has served on the Editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions
on Networking and  Computer Network, an International Journal.
He was Technical Program Co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2006 and the
IEEE/IFIP IWQoS'04   as well as the SPIE ITCOM 2002 conference on
Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks, served on the
Executive Committee for IEEE Infocom 2001 and Infocom 2003, and on the 
Technical Program Committees of various conferences and workshops including
IEEE Infocom, IEEE ICNP, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM/USENIX IMC, and ACM SIGMM.
He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1997.
He has also awarded the prestigious McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
and George Taylor Distinguished Research Award
at the University of Minnesota, and the Miller Visiting Professorship at
Miller Institute for Basic Sciences, University of California,
Berkeley. Dr. Zhang is co-recipient of an ACM 
SIGMETRICS best paper award and an IEEE International Conference on Network
Protocols (ICNP) best paper award. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards
of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Computer Network, the International
Journal. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.