Zhi-Li Zhang

Zhi-Li Zhang
Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Qwest Land Grant Chair in Telecommunications, Department of Computer Science & EngineeringContact
Kenneth H. Keller Hall Room 6-187 200 Union Street SeMinneapolis, MN 55455
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1997)
- M.S. in Computer science, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1992)
- B.S. in Computer Science, Nanjing University (1986)
Biography
Zhang's research interests lie broadly in computer communication and networks, Internet technology, multimedia and emerging applications. His current research focuses primarily on i) building highly scalable, resilient and secure Internet infrastructure and mechanisms to enhance Internet service performance, availability, reliability, manageability and security; and on ii) developing next-generation, service-oriented, secure, manageable and economically viable Internet architectures to provide better support for creation, deployment, operations and management of value-added Internet services (e.g., large-scale mobile, cloud services and content (esp. video) delivery systems) and underlying networks. He is also interested in complex networks, social network analysis, robustness of critical infrastructure networks, and the interplay between socio-technical networks.
Research Areas
Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security
Current Research
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Visit Zhi-Li Zhang's Experts@Minnesota profile page.
- New UMN networking research presented at SOSR 2021
- Three papers with Minnesota authors at SIGCOMM 2021
- CS&E faculty ranked among top CS researchers in the world
- Collaboration with Cisco explores frontier of data technologies
- Professor Zhang receives AWS ML Research Award
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University of Minnesota awarded federal grant to research autonomous vehicles
Honors and Awards
- 2007- Current: Qwest Land Grant Chair in Telecommunications
- 2013: McKnight Professorships
- 2011: IEEE Fellow
- 2007: IBM Faculty Award
- 2006: IBM Faculty Award
- 2005: College of Science and Engineering - George W. Taylor Awards
- 2000: McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
- 1998: National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER Award)