Zhi-Li Zhang
Qwest Chair Professor
Department of
Computer
Science and
Engineering
University of Minnesota
4-192 Keller Hall (formerly EE/CS Building)
200 Union Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Office: Keller Hall 6-187
Phone: (612) 625-8568
Fax: (612) 625-0572
E-mail: zhzhang (at) cs (dot) umn (dot) edu
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Zhi-Li joined the Department
of
Computer Science and Engineering at
University of
Minnesota
in January
1997, where he is now a Full Professor. He received his M.S. and
Ph.D.
degrees in computer science from the University of Massachusetts in
1992 and 1997 (Ph.D thesis advisors, Profs. Don
Towsley
and Jim
Kurose. Zhi-Li
graduated with B.S. in Computer Science with highest distinction
from Nanjing
University, Nanjing,
China. While a junior student at Nanjing, Zhi-Li led a team of
senior students for their senior design projects. He was one of five
students selected for
graduate study exempted from the graduate school entrance exam
at Nanjing University. Shortly afterwards, he was awarded a highly
selective fellowship from the Chinese National
Committee for Education for graduate study in Europe, and studied at
the Computer
Science
Department,
Århus University, Denmark. Prof. Zhang is a Fellow of
IEEE.
My research interests lie broadly in computer communication and
networks, Internet technology, multimedia and emerging
applications. While my past research was centered on the analysis,
design and development of scalable Internet QoS solutions to support
performance-demanding multimedia applications,
my current research thrusts focus primarily on i) building
highly
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.
Some of ongoing research projects include:
- Understanding, Managing and
Trouble-Shooting the Evolving Cellular Data Networks
- Spatio-Temporal Network Traffic
Dynamics and Interactions of Networks and Applications
- VIRO: Highly Scalable,
Robust
and
Namespace Independent Routing for Future Networks
- Machine Learning in Network
Measurement
and Trouble-shooting (in collaboration with AT&T Research)
- focusing in particular on "Trouble-shooting Large-scale 3G
Cellular Network Infrastructures"
- Network Traffic Intelligence, with
Network Security Applications (in collaboration with Narus Inc.)
- Towards a Theory of Network Robustness
and Inter-dependence
Some of recent past funded projects, some
of
research topics we are still pursuing:
I am leading the Networking
Research
Group.
Here is a list of my (not yet completely updated) publications.
Current Ph.D students who are working
with
me:
- Yingying Chen (also working at
Microsoft Bing)
- Braulio Dumba
- Cheng Jin
- Nan Jiang
- Yanhua Li
- Pengkui Luo
- Haldane Peterson (also working at
Honeywell Technology Center)
- Eman Ramadan
- Gyan Ranjan
- Tim Salo
- Hesham Mekky Zakareya
Vistors and Visiting
Students:
Past Ph.D students who I advised or
co-advised:
- Vijay Kumar Adhikari (Ph.D 2012, now
with Microsoft)
- Changho
Choi (Ph.D 2007, now with Cisco)
- Jaideep
Chandrashekar (Ph.D 2005, was at Intel Research, Santa
Clara and
Berkeley
Lab, now at the Technicolor Research Lab, Paris, France)
- Baek-Young
Choi
(Ph.D
2003, now Associate Professor at University of Missouri,
Kansas City)
- Yingfei
Dong
(Ph.D 2003, now Associate Professor at University of Hawaii)
-
Zhenhai
Duan (Ph.D
2003, now Associate Professor at Florida State University)
- Eric
Eilertson (Ph.D 2007, co-advised with Prof. Vipin Kumar,
Institute
for Defense Analyses)
- Yu Jin (Ph.D 2011, now
with
AT&T Research)
- Sourabh Jain (Ph.D
2011, now at Instart Logic, was at Cisco)
- Sanghwan
Lee (Ph.D 2005, now Assistant Professor at Kookmin
University, Korea; was with IBM T.J Watson Research Center)
- Haiyang
Liu (Ph.D 2007, co-advised with Prof. Jaideep Srivastava,
Honeywell
Technology Labs)
- Guor-Huar
Lu (Ph.D 2008, now at 3M, was with FAF Advisors/US Bank)
- Srihari
Nelakuditi
(Ph.D
2001, now Associate Professor at University of South
Carolina)
- Esam Sharafuddin (Ph.D
2011,
now at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Law Firm)
- Gyorgy
Simon (Ph.D 2008, co-advised with Prof. Vipin Kumar, now
at Mayo
Clinic; was with Yahoo! Research)
- Sejun
Song (Ph.D
2001, now Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University,
was
with Cisco & Wichita State University)
- Srivatsan Varadarajan (Ph.D 2004,
co-advised with
Prof. Jaideep
Srivastava, Honeywell)
- Kuai
Xu (Ph.D
2006, now Assistant Professor at Arizona
State University; was with Yahoo!)
- Yinzhe Yu (Ph.D 2005, Microsoft)
- Ting Zhu (Ph.D 2010, co-advised
with Prof. Tian He, now Assistant Professor at SUNY Binghamton
University)
I am also working with -- and have worked with -- a number of
talented M.S. graduate students as well
as several undergraduate students on various research
projects/topics.
- I am an Associate Editor for Journal
of Computer Sicience and Technology (JCST) published by
the
Chinese Academy of Natural Sciences. I was an Associate Editor
for
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2001 -- 2009),
and has also served on the Editorial Board of Computer Networks
in the
past (2001-2004).
- I have served on the Technical Program Committees of various
conferences and workshops including
ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM MobiHoc, WWW, CoNext,
ACM/USENIX IMC,
IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, IEEE Global Internet, IWQoS, ACM
SIGCOMM Workshopn on Mining Network Data (MineNet) (2005-2006),
ACM
SIGMM,
and quite a number of other conferences/workshops.
- I was Technical Program Committee co-chair for the ACM/USENIX
Internet Measurement Conference 2008 (IMC'08), the IEEE
INFOCOM'06 conference and IEEE/IFIP IWQoS'04.
- I served on the Steering Committee of IEEE IWQoS
workshop and ACM Sigmetrics HotMetrics Workshop, and have also
served
on the Executive Committee for IEEE
INFOCOM (2001, 2003, and 2006).
- I served on the Scientific Board of IMDEA
Networks
(a European
Research Center in Telematics) from 2007-2010.
- I am a member of ACM and IEEE, and a Fellow of IEEE.
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