Professional Experiences
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Senior Technical Leader/Senior Research Staff, Advanced Architecture and Research, Cisco Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA, 2010 - Current
- Driving innovations in multiple Cisco's products and software services: initiating new architectures, evaluating new technologies and preparing for their seamless integration with Cisco product lines.
- Currently working on leading research and engineering team on rapid prototyping next generation cloud computing (Fog Computing) and software defined networking (SDN) products and services.
- Project involvements: Connected Vehicle, Trusted Execution and Enterprise Security, Adaptive Content Distribution Network. Large-scale Directory Services, Object-level Security, Fog Computing and OVS acceleration.
- PI and tech lead of Fog Computing Project, a recipient of $1Million Technology Fund from Cisco CEO John Chambers in 2012.
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Technical Leader/Manager, Video Content Platform BU, Cisco Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA, 2006 - 2010
- Served as chief designer and project lead of Movie Streamer, Cisco's first high performance H.264 streaming and caching engine, a major part of Cisco Content Delivery System (CDS). Chief inventor of several technologies that initiated this product, including Linear Hinting Streaming, Partial Cache and Rate adaptation. Played a significant role in supporting product trial with Cisco technical marketing and drove the trials to revenue generating deals with major customers such as Google Inc. and France Telecom.
- Served as engineering lead of Proximity Engine (PxE) and Service Routing (SR) products. This groundbreaking technology combines IP routing information to optimize content and service distribution and exchange. Drove the project from ideation through multiple prototypes to scalable, resilient and cost-efficient products. Played a pivotal role in supporting the first customer trial of PxE/SR that yielded initial revenue. Key technological contributions include DHT-base prefix search, Federation with DHT, BGP proximity, service routing scalability and platform convergence.
- Led 12-person project teams in China, Europe and US to deliver multiple sub systems including mobile streaming, intelligent service routing, and P2P traffic optimization; balanced the trade-offs between feature set and time-to- market; expanded customer base of CDS to a number of global leaders in the telecommunications market, such as Verizon, KDDI and NTT.
- Designed a comprehensive training course of CDS and Movie Streamer and trained both customers, cross-functional teams and new engineers. Mentored new grads and interns.
- Submitted 4 patents on content routing, multimedia streaming and distributed hash table.
- Worked closely with Cisco Research Center and Advance Architecture and Research team to solve escalated research problems that arose from product development and deployment of CDS and PxE/SR.
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Founding engineer/Technical Leader, Azalea Networks, Inc. Beijing, China/Milpitas, CA, 2005-2006
- Co-invented AWR, a Mesh Routing Protocol, the key technology Azalea was founded upon.
- Served as chief designer and developer of AOS, the company's flagship operating system.
- Key technological contributions include AWR routing and forwarding foundation and intelligent roaming and mobility.
- Recruited, grew, and led 7-person development team in US and China on integration of AOS and the hardware platforms to deliver the first mesh routing product.
- Led a team of 3 researchers and improved Voice and Video quality over wireless mesh under high mobility and high interference. Delivered various solutions that helped the company win dozens of deals in the field of video surveillance and public safety in China and US.
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Senior Member of Technical Staff, Juniper Networks Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 2004-2005
- Led the design and development of Link Service Sub-system for Juniper's M120 product line, a new multi-service routing platform with optimized features. Key technological contributions include multilink service kernel re- architecture, multilink service scalability and link service forward micro-kernel.
- Gave organization-wide talks on networking related technologies, such as PPPoE, MP, multi-processor architecture and multi-thread design.
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Senior Software Engineer, Edge OS, Cisco Systems Inc. San Jose, CA, 2000-2004
- Led Layer 2 VPN and Pseudo Wire Emulation(PWE) design and development effort and actively participated in the IETF PWE Work Group. Led the development effort on ATM OAM over PWE. Formed collaboration alliances among multiple teams inside Cisco. Key technological contributions include L2VPN and PWE standardization, service module in Intelligent Edge OS, L2TPv3 over Ethernet and ATM, and Dial-on-Demand routing.
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Research Engineer, Center of Applied Computer Science, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 1998-2000
- Led the development team to design, implement and deploy Course Online (COL), DePaul's 1st distant learning system. Key technological contributions include user authentication and authorization, real time video recording and processing, digital white board recording and analysis, content distribution across multiple campuses, and streaming performance optimizations.
- Served as technology evangelist to demonstrate and showcase COL to faculty and students in CS department. Played a significant role in the adoption of this innovation.
- Worked with other departments and schools to expand the adoption of COL technology that made DePaul one of the largest distant learning providers in the nation.
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Student Intern, IBM China Research Lab, Beijing, China, 1997
- Participated in development of HotVideo (TM), the first interactive video application for the Web.
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Project Lead, R&D Staff member, China Digital TV Holding LTD (formerly Tsinghua Tong Fang/Novel Info Tech Ltd.),
Beijing, China, 1996-1998
- Originated the idea to use one-directional channel to deliver near-on-demand content to Digital Cable subscriber, which laid the foundation of Novel's 1st generation Multimedia Broadcast System (MMCAST).
- Led project team of 5 undergrad students and 2 grad students to convert above-mentioned idea to the key software sub-system in MMCAST.
- Worked closely with trial customers in deploying and troubleshooting MMCAST systems in experimental testbed and production system.
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University GPA: 4.0/4.0- Thesis: Behavior-Aware Computing: Architecture, Models and Applications.
M.S. Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Jun 2010 (expected)
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University (current on leave), GPA: 4.04/4.0
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Research Assistant (part-time), High Performance Networking Group, Dec 2006 - Current
Research focus: Congestion control algorithm and its deployment, off-path flow-based control and forwarding, mobility in the open wireless access networks, large-scale directory service.- Building a RCP (Rate Control Protocol) Test Network [with Nandita Dukkipati, Glen Gibb, Nick McKeown]
- Making large scale deployment of RCP practical for real networks" [with Chia-Hui Tai and Nandita Dukkipati]
- TCP in A World of Cloud Services, [with N.Dukkipati, S.Addepalli, F.Bonomi]
- Stanford OpenFlow Wireless Infrastructure Deployment Project [with K.Yap, M.Kobayashi]
- OpenRoad: Empowering Research in Mobile Networks [with K.Yap, M.Kobayashi, T.Huang, M.Chan, N.Handigol and N.McKeown]
- Directory Service for the future Internet and POMI (in progress)
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Research Assistant (part-time), Multimedia Networking Group, Sep 2001~Jun 2004
Research focus: multimedia communications over Wireless LAN and Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking (MANET), MANET routing protocols and their performance analysis, realistic simulation of MANET deployment scenarios, protocol revisions to enhance the performance subjected to QoS constraints.- Transmitting H.26L Video Traffic Over 802.11 Wireless LAN - A Simulation Study [with G.Wang]
- Simulation and Modeling of Congested Links with Flows of Traffic in Packet Switched Networks [with C.He] VoIP Capacity of an IEEE 802.11b Mobile Ad Hoc Network [with M. Hira]
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Research Assistant, Intelligent Information Retrieval Group, DePaul CTI
Research focus: Information Retrieval of WWW, Web Personalizations
- Integrating Web Usage and Content Mining for More Effective Personalization
- FavoriteExchange, a bookmark mining and filtering system
- Thesis: "Delivering near-on-demand content to digital cable subscribers using MMCAST system"
Honors and Awards
- Excellent Performance Award, Cisco Systems, Inc. 2011, 2009, 2007
- Excellent Coaching Award, Cisco Systems, Inc. 2008
- Nomination in Technology Pioneer Award, Cisco Systems, Inc. 2009
- Excellent Performance Award, Cisco Systems, Inc. 2002, 2003
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 2002-2004
- Graduation with Distinction, DePaul University, 2000
- Dr. Epp's Award of Academic Excellence, DePaul University, 2000
- IEEE Student Scholarship, IEEE Chicago Chapter & DePaul University, 1999
- First Class Fellowship, Tsinghua University, 1995 -1998
- Motorola Fellowship, Honor Student Award, Tsinghua University, 1993, 1994
Patents
- Failover mechanism for real-time packet streaming sessions, Patent Issued, US. Patent No. 7,953,883
- LINEAR HINT VIDEO STREAMING, US and China Patent Pending
- PLACEMENT OF SERVICE DELIVERY LOCATIONS OF A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SERVICE BASED ON LOGICAL TOPOLOGY, Patent Pending
- Apparatus and mechanism on building user behavior model and statistical transition map to assist efficient roaming in WLAN based, US Patent Pending
- Methods and Apparatus to route user requests to network servers based on reachablity and network proximity, US Patent Pending
- Prefix and Predictive Search Algorithm for Distribute Hash Table, US Patent Pending
- Method of interpreting mobility pattern to efficiently identify and store individual user mobility characteristics, Patent Pending
- Apparatus and mechanism to distribute content in IP-based camera networks using adaptive distributed hash table, Patent Pending
Selected Publications and WIP papers
- Jiang Zhu and Ying Zhang , " Towards Accountable Mobility Model: A Language Approach on User Behavior Modeling in Office WiFi Networks ," in the Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011) , Maui, Hawaii, July 31 - August 4, 2011.
- Jiang Zhu, Fei Xiong, Dongzhen Piao, Yun Liu, and Ying Zhang, "Statistically Modeling the Effectiveness of Disaster Information in Social Media," in the Proceedings of IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), Seattle, Washington, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1st, 2011.
- Ge Zhang, Yonggang Wen, Jiang Zhu and Qinghua Chen, "On File Delay Minimization for Content Uploading to Media Cloud via Collaborative Wireless Network," in the Proceedings of WCSP 2011 International Conference on Wireless Communications & Signal Processing, Nanjing, China.
- Huan-Kai Peng, Jiang Zhu, Dongzhen Piao, Rong Yan and Ying Zhang, "Retweet Modeling Using Conditional Random Fields," in the Proceedings of DMCCI 2011: ICDM 2011 Workshop on Data Mining Technologies for Computational Collective Intelligence, December 11, 2011.
- Huan-Kai Peng, Pang Wu, Jiang Zhu, and Ying Zhang, "Helix: Unsupervised Grammar Induction for Structured Human Activity Recognition," in the Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM), Vancouver, Canada, Dec 11-14, 2011.
- Pang Wu, Huan-Kai Peng, Jiang Zhu and Ying Zhang , "SensCare: Semi-Automatic Activity Summarization System for Elderly Care," in the Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2011), Los Angeles, CA, October 24-27, 2011.
- Fei Xiong, Yun Liu, Jiang Zhu, Zhen-Jiang Zhang, Yan-Chao Zhang and Ying Zhang , "A Dissipative Network Model with Neighboring Activation," in The European Physical Journal B: Volume 84, Number 1, Page 115-120 (2011).
- Fei Xiong, Yun Liu, Jiang Zhu, and Ying Zhang , "Opinion Formation with the Evolution of Network," in the Proceedings of 2011 Cross-Strait Conference on Information Science and Technology and iCube (CSCIST 2011), TaiBei, December 8-9, 2011.
- Snehal Kumar Chennuru, Peng-Wen Chen, Jiang Zhu and Ying Zhang, " Mobile Lifelogger - recording, indexing, and understanding a mobile user's life ," In the Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services , Santa Clara, CA, Oct 25-28, 2010.
- "Making large scale deployment of RCP practical for real networks", C.Tai, J.Zhu, N. Dukkipati], IEEE Infocom 2008 Mini-conference, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008
- "Building a RCP (Rate Control Protocol) Test Network" N. Dukkipati, G. Gibb, N. McKeown and J. Zhu, Hot Interconnects, Stanford, August 2007.
- "Integrating Web Usage and Content Mining for More Effective Personalization", B.Mobasher, H. Dai, T. Luo, Y. Sun and J. Zhu, Proceeding of International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies [ECWeb2000], September 2000, Greenwich, UK
- "Robust Adaptive Tracing using Dynamic Neural Networks" Q. Dai, J. Wu, J.Zhu, Y. Li], Information & Control, Vol.3, 1997, China
- Jiang Zhu, Sean Wang, Pang Wu and Ying Zhang, " SenSec: Mobile Application Security through Passive Sensing ," Submitted to Proceedings of USENIX, 2012.
- Fei Xiong, Yun Liu, Jiang Zhu, Zhen-Jiang Zhang and Ying Zhang , "An Information Diffusion Model Based on Retweeting Mechanism for Online Social Media," submitted to Physics Letters A.
- Fei Xiong, Yun Liu, Jiang Zhu and Ying Zhang , "Dissipative Opinion Dynamics with External Influence," submitted to The European Physical Journal B.
- Fei Xiong, Yun Liu, Jiang Zhu, Jie Lian and Ying Zhang , "Hot Post Prediction for BBS Based on Multifactor Fusion," submitted to Journal of Convergence Information Technology.
Invited Talks
- Jiang Zhu, "Invited Talk: Mobile Sensing for Behavior-aware Mobile Computing," in the Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2011), Los Angeles, CA, October 24-27, 2011.
- "TCP in A World of Cloud Services", [with N.Dukkipati, S.Addepalli, F.Bonomi], The Future of TCP: Train-wreck or Evolution Workshop, Stanford, CA, Apr 2008
- "SENA: Towards Service Enabled Network Architecture", invited by Prof Yun Liu, School of Electronic and Information Technology, Beijing JiaoTong University, Dec 2008.
Professional Activities
- Symposium Chair, Cloud Computing, ICNC 2013
- Expo Chair, Organizing Committee Member, ICME 2013
- Student Travel Grant Chair, ICME 2011
- Publicity Chair, ICCCN 2011
- Program committee member, Cisco-sponsored University Research Awards. 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
- Technical Program Committee member, Cisco CTech, the internal Research and Innovation Conference at Cisco, 2009
- Technical Program Committee member, IEEE GlobalCom, 2009
- Technical Program Committee member, IEEE VCIP, special session on Internet Video and Content distribution, 2010
- IEEE member, 1997~Present
- ACM student member, 1997~2000
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