Hui Zhang's Home Page

Hui Zhang

I am a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

I am also Co-Founder and CEO of Conviva Inc. During 2000 - 2003, I was the Chief Technical Officer of Turin Networks (merged with Force 10 Networks in 2009 and acquired by Dell in 2011).

Recent Publications

Selected Recent Talks

"Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on User Engagement", SIGCOMM'01 presentation.
"Internet Video: The 2011 Perspective", Keynote speech, IWQoS'2011.
"A Clean Slate Design Approach to Networking Research", May 2005.
"Overview and Status Update of 100x100 Project", Dec 2004.
"End System Multicast", May 2004.

Research Interests

My research interests are in Internet video, future Internet architecture, and network control archirecture and protocols.

XIA project
100x100 Clean Slate Design Project
4D Approach to Network Control and Management
Network Security projects: Seurat and Dragnet .
End System Multicast, P2P Video Streaming, IPTV.
Global Network Positioning

In the past, I worked on QoS, multicast, content distribution protocols and algorithms.

Current Students

Junchen Jiang on Internet video

Former Graduate Students and Postdocs

Ion Stoica, faculty member at CS, UC Berkeley. Winner of 2001 ACM Dissertation Award.
Eugene Ng, faculty member at CS, Rice.
Yanghua Chu, Google
Sanjay Rao, faculty member, Purdue University.
Kay Sripanidkulchai, TJ Watson Research, IBM.
Aditya Ganjam, VP Engineering, Conviva.
Andy Myers, hedge fund in NYC.
Yinglian Xie, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley.
Hong Yan, Facebook.
Vyas Sekar, Intel Labs, Berkeley.
Franck Le, IBM TJ Watson.
Xin Zhang, Google.
Justin Weisz, TJ Watson, IBM Research.
Dave Maltz , Microsofto Research.
Jon Bennett, Riverdelta, Motorola, Harvard Ph.D student.
John Chuang, faculty member at SIMS, UC Berkeley.
Marco Mellia, faculty member, Politecnico di Torino.
Donpaul Stephens, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Violin.