Hui Zhang (computer scientist)
{{Short description|Chinese-American computer scientist}}
{{Western name order|Zhang Hui}}
Hui Zhang ({{zh|s=张晖}}) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and an entrepreneur who co-founded Conviva.
Education
Zhang received a B.S. in computer science from Peking University in 1988, an M.S. in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 under Domenico Ferrari with a thesis titled Service Disciplines for Integrated Services Packet-Switching Networks.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ece.cmu.edu/directory/bios/zhang-hui.html|title=Hui Zhang|website=Carnegie Mellon University|access-date=2019-08-26}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |title=Hui Zhang |url=https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=85042 |website=The Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=26 October 2022}}
Career
Zhang, together with Ion Stoica, Aditya Ganjam, and Jibin Zhan, co-founded Conviva, where he is chief scientist and chairman of the board.{{Cite web|url=https://www.conviva.com/|title=Video AI Platform – Measurement and analytics for the next generation of TV|website=Conviva|access-date=2019-05-24}}
Zhang's research focus is in Internet QoE, video streaming, network architecture, and real-time big data analytics.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UMll0FcAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Hui Zhang - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2019-05-24}} 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 Test of Time Award in year 2011.{{Cite journal|last1=Chu|first1=Yang-hua|last2=Rao|first2=Sanjay G.|last3=Zhang|first3=Hui|date=June 2000|title=A Case for End System Multicast (Keynote Address)|journal= ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review|volume=28|issue=1|pages=1–12|doi=10.1145/345063.339337|issn=0163-5999}} 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.{{Cite journal|last1=Greenberg|first1=Albert|last2=Hjalmtysson|first2=Gisli|last3=Maltz|first3=David A.|last4=Myers|first4=Andy|last5=Rexford|first5=Jennifer|last6=Xie|first6=Geoffrey|last7=Yan|first7=Hong|last8=Zhan|first8=Jibin|last9=Zhang|first9=Hui|date=October 2005|title=A Clean Slate 4D Approach to Network Control and Management|journal= ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review|volume=35|issue=5|pages=41–54|doi=10.1145/1096536.1096541|issn=0146-4833|hdl=10945/34771|s2cid=5763010|hdl-access=free}}
As a professor, Zhang has mentored many students. He supervised Ion Stoica's Ph.D. dissertation, which won ACM Dissertation Award in 2001.{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation/award-winners|title=Award Winners|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2019-07-07}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scs.cmu.edu/~scsfacts/dissertation.html|title=SCS STUDENT AWARDS|website=www.scs.cmu.edu|access-date=2019-07-07}}
Zhang was elected to be a Fellow of ACM in 2005{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/fellows/award-winners|title=Recipients|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2019-07-07}} and received the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2000.{{Cite web|url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows|title=Past Fellows|website=sloan.org|access-date=2019-07-07|archive-date=2018-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314000756/https://sloan.org/past-fellows|url-status=dead}} He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1996 and held the Finmeccanica Chair in Computer Science at CMU from 1998 to 2001.
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