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I am a faculty member at the Computer Science department, U.C. Santa Barbara. Before UCSB, I completed my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley. My research spans the areas of networking, security and privacy, distributed systems, simulation and modeling. I received my B.S. degree from Yale University (BR'97). I am a recent recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER award, MIT Tech Review's TR-35 Award (Young Innovators Under 35), and ComputerWorld's Top 40 Technology Innovators.

New and Hopefully Useful

  • I've been a big Facebook user for a while, and am trying out Twitter.
  • My Erdos number is 3, Erdos -> Michael Saks -> Kirsten Hildrum -> me.
  • I'm a PI on a new NSF project to study data processing on large graph datasets. NSF, SB Indep,
  • Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I am currently unable to host undergraduate visiting students seeking internships. I am also unable to respond to all e-mails seeking such internships.
  • Chimera v1.20 structured overlay library for Linux and 32-bit WindowsXP
  • Student resources
  • Bits of accumulated wisdom (mostly for my reference):

    • Teaching

    [F09] CS276 - Graduate Networking
    An advanced course in networking covering topics such as distance vector and link state routing, BGP, multicast, TCP variations, wireless and peer-to-peer networks. Prerequisite: solid background in networking (176A/B or undergraduate equivalent).
    Future/Other Courses (MouseOver for Prerequisites)
    [F08] [F07] [F06] CS276 - Graduate Networking
    [W09] [S08] [S07] [S06] CS170 - Operating Systems
    [W08] [W07] CS176B - Network Computing
    [S09] CS290F - Online Social Networks, Applications and Systems
    [S07] CS595N - Anonymous and Privacy-Preserving Systems
    [S06] [W05] CS290F - Large-scale Networked Systems
    [S06] CS176C - Advanced Topics in Networking

    Research

  • My research interests lie in the boundaries between networking, security and privacy, operating systems, and algorithms.  I also have healthy interests in wireless and mobile computing, programming languages and databases.
  • At UCSB, I lead the CURRENT lab for research on Secure and Reliable Networking. Ongoing projects include:
    • Privacy and Data Mining in Social Networks
    • Anonymous communication
    • Vehicular Networks
    • Reputations for peer-to-peer systems
  • My thesis work on the Tapestry structured P2P overlay.

    • Dates: Travel and CFPs

    Fall 09: 9/24-12/4-12/12
    Winter 10: 1/4-3/12-3/20

    Dates:
  • Travel: Beijing 6/18-7/18
  • Travel: Davis 7/20-7/21
  • CFP: 7/17-24, HotNets 2009
  • Travel: Cambridge, UK 7/24-7/25
  • CFP: 7/24-31, INFOCOM 2010
  • Travel: Berkeley 8/3
  • CFP: 8/30, 11/28, 12/17, CNS Core
  • CFP: 8/30, 11/28, 12/17, CISE Cross-cutting
  • CFP: 9/25-10/2, NSDI 2010
  • CFP: 10/19, EuroSys 2010
  • CFP: February 2010, SIGCOMM 2010

    • Professional Activities

    Program Committees
    IEEE P2P 2009 INFOCOM 2010
    WISE 2009 SRDS 2009
    Euro-Par 2009 SecureComm 2009
    ICDCS 2009 INFOCOM 2009
    ICPADS 2008 MoVeNet 2007
    ICNP 2007 INFOCOM 2008
    IWQoS 2007 PMECT 2007
    ICDCS 2007 ACM MobiShare 2006
    ACM STC 2006 IEEE PMAC-2WN 2006
    ICNP 2006 ICDCS 2006
    IPTPS 2006 P2MS 2005
    ACM WiSe 2005 AEPP 2005
    Networking 2005
    		 IPTPS 2005
    ICDCS 2005
    		 MP2P 2004
    Other Professional Service
  • Steering Committee: IPTPS
  • Program Co-Chair: IPTPS 2006
  • Web Systems Chair: ICNP 2006

    • Contact Info

    Prof. Ben Y. Zhao
    Department of Computer Science
    University of California
    Santa Barbara, California 93106-5110
    Phone: +1 (805) 893-3926
    Fax: +1 (805) 893-8553