Hui Zhang () is a Chinese-American computer scientist and professor at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

, and an entrepreneur who co-founded

Conviva Conviva is a venture-backed, privately held company, offering services for online video optimization and online video analytics. Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in New York and London. History The company was founded as Rin ...

Education

Zhang received a B.S. in computer science from

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

in 1988, an M.S. in computer engineering from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

in 1989, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1993 under Domenico Ferrari with a thesis titled ''Service Disciplines for Integrated Services Packet-Switching Networks''.

Career

Zhang, together with

Ion Stoica Ion Stoica is a Romanian-American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and co-director of AMPLab. He co-fo ...

, Aditya Ganjam, and Jibin Zhan, co-founded

, where he is chief scientist and chairman of the board. Zhang's research focus is in Internet QoE, video streaming, network architecture, and real-time big data analytics. Zhang's End System Multicast (ESM) project pioneered the overlay multicast architecture and developed the world's first peer-to-peer live streaming system. The ESM paper published in year 2000 won the ACM

SIGMETRICS SIGMETRICS is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation, which specializes in the field of performance analysis, measurement, and modeling of computer systems. It is also the name of an annual ...

Test of Time Award in year 2011. His 4D research project advocated the network control architecture that separates control logic from data devices, and was the precursor to the Software Defined Networks (SDN) initiative. The 4D paper published in year 2005 won the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in year 2015. As a professor, Zhang has mentored many students. He supervised Ion Stoica's Ph.D. dissertation, which won ACM Dissertation Award in 2001. He co-advised, with Vyas Sekar (a former student of his), Junchen Jiang's PhD thesis, which won the 2017 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award. Zhang was elected to be a Fellow of ACM in 2005 and received the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2000. He received the

National Science Foundation Career Award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

in 1996 and held the Finmeccanica Chair in Computer Science at CMU from 1998 to 2001.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:ZHang, Hui Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Peking University alumni Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty Chinese computer scientists American computer scientists Chinese emigrants to the United States Chinese computer businesspeople American computer businesspeople Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Sloan Research Fellows American company founders