Prof. Heather Zheng

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Univ. of California
Santa Barbara

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Prof. Haitao (Heather) Zheng
Engineering I, 1121
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106-5110
Phone: +1 (805) 893-3560
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Research
My general research area includes wireless communications and networking, mobile computing, multimedia communications. I am also interested in game theory, security and distributed systems. Currently, I am working on Intelligent Wireless Networking related projects, and leading the  LINK Lab, part of UCSB Next Generation Networking Group.

In the past, I have worked on Nautilus project - managing open spectrum systems, at Wireless and Networking Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China (04/2004-08/2005); and Radio Resource Allocation for Broadband Wireless Networks including MIMO/BLAST and Base Station Router (the winner of 2006 CTIA Wireless Emerging Technologies Award) at Wireless Research Laboratory, Bell-Labs, Lucent Technolgies, Crawford Hill & Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.A. (08/1999-03/2004).

I am also interested in multimedia networking - my Ph.D. thesis research (08/1995-08/1999) at Univ. of Maryland, College Park was on multimedia communications, a cross layer design framework to provide resource efficient multimedia delivery over noisy channels. Here are the links to some of my past projects (1995.8-2005.8).

Teaching
[F08] [F07] [F06] [F05] CS30- Introduction to Computer Systems : an introduction course on basic computer organization and assembly language programming.  MW 9:30--10:45am. Prerequisite: Engineering 3 or CS 5AA-ZZ or 10; and, Mathematics 3C.

[W09][S08] [W07] [W06] CS290F - Intelligent Wireless Systems: a special topics graduate course on intelligent wireless systems, with particular emphasis on cognitive networking algorithms, protocols and applications.

[S09][S08] [S07] CS176C - Advanced Topics in Networking: a undergradute course on advanced topics in networking, with particular emphasis on wireless networks.

[F08] [F06] [S06] CS595F - Systems and Networking Seminar, Monday 11-noon.

Awards

  • Finalist for Best Paper Award, MobiCom 2008.
  • Best Student Paper, DySPAN 2007
  • Fellow of World Technology Network (Communication Technology)
  • Featured in MIT Technology Review 10 Emerging Technologies, March/April issue 2006.
  • 2005 MIT Technology Review TR 35 :Top 35 Innovators under the age of 35.
  • Bell Laboratories President's Gold Award: for "outstanding level of innovation, technical excellence, and business impact," Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 2002.
  • Nominated for Best Paper Award for IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (Nominated by Multimedia Signal Processing Committee), 2002.
  • George Harhalakis Outstanding Graduate Student Award - for "outstanding contributions in cross-disciplinary research," University of Maryland, College Park, 1998-1999.
  • Institute for Systems Research Fellowship - for "high quality research project and outstanding academic record," University of Maryland, College Park , 1995 - 1998.
  • Graduated with the highest honor (ranked 1st in EE department), Xi'an Jiaotong University, 1995.
  • Admitted as highly gifted student at age 15, Xi'an Jiaotong University

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