Computer Science University of california, Santa barbara
Heather Zheng
I am an associate professor at Department of
Computer Science. I received
my PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Maryland,
College Park. I joined UCSB after spending 6 years in industry labs
(Bell-Labs, NJ and Microsoft Research Asia). At UCSB, I lead the
LINK Lab, part of the Next
Generation Networking Group.
I was one of the
MIT Technology Reivew's TR
35 (2005) for my work on Cognitive Radios; my work was
featured by MIT Technology Review as one of the
10 Emerging Technologies (2006); I am a fellow of the
World Technology Network. More
details can be found from my Curriculum
Vitae.
I am looking for 1-2 talented and self-motivated graduate
students on wireless networking or social networks. Perspective students should first read the
Admission FAQ
page, and then email me your resume, 1--2 representative publications
(if any) with a subject line "UCSB Applicant.''
My Research
My general research area includes wireless networking and systems,
mobile computing and multimedia computing. I am also interested in
security and
distributed systems. My current research is on cognitive radios &
networking, dynamic spectrum sharing and auctions, with a particular
focus on improving network reliability and robustness. Detailed
information can be found from the Research
Overview
as well as the List of Publications.
We thank the generous support of a number of funding agencies and
industry partners. My current sponsors include National Science
Foundation (NSF), Hisillicon, Intel, Microsoft and Samsung.
Recent
Publications:
- Dynamic Spectrum
Auctions
- TRUST:
A General Framework for Truthful Double Spectrum Auctions, Infocom
2009 [ PDF
]
- eBay In the
Sky: Strategy-Proof Wireless Spectrum Auctions, MobiCom 2008 [ PDF
]
Finalist for Best Paper
- A
General
Framework
for Wireless Spectrum Auctions, DySPAN 2007 [ PDF
] Best Student Paper
- Dynamic Spectrum
Access
- Traffic-aware
Dynamic Spectrum Access, WiCON 2008 [ PDF
]
- Physical Interference
Driven Dynamic Spectrum Management, DySPAN
2008 [ PDF
]
- SPARTA: Reliable and Efficient Spectrum Access, Infocom 2008 [ PDF
]
- Understanding the Power of
Distributed
Coordination for Dynamic Spectrum Management, MONET
October 2008. [
Preprint
]
- Distributed
Rule-Regulated
Spectrum Sharing, JSAC Jan. 2008 [ Preprint
]
Past
Research: My research spreads across multiple layers. At
Microsoft Research Asia, I initiated and led the Nautilus
project on Open Spectrum
Systems; At Wireless Research Lab, Bell-Labs, I worked on Radio
Resource
Allocation for Broadband
Wireless Networks including MIMO/BLAST, Network Scheduling and TCP,
and Base
Station Router. My
Ph.D. thesis
research at Univ. of Maryland, College Park was on
multimedia communications, a cross layer design framework to provide
resource-efficient multimedia delivery over noisy networks. Here are
the links to some of my collection
of past
projects.
Teaching
[F08]
CS30- Introduction to Computer
Systems : an introduction course on basic
computer organization and assembly language programming.
[W09] CS290F - Cognitive Wireless Networking, a special-topic wireless
networking class.
[S09]
CS176C - Advanced
Topics in Networking: a undergradute course on advanced topics in
networking, with particular emphasis on wireless networks.
Professional Activities
Workshop Chair: SDR'09
Conference TPC (incomplete list) : DySPAN'10, Infocom'10, MobiCom'09,
Infocom'09,
SECON'09
Journal: Trans. on Mobile Computing (Assoc. Editor), Trans. on Wireless
Communication (Editor), Physical Communication (Editorial Board &
Guest Editor)