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 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
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- My Google Voice voicemail is now active: 1-805-617-0219
- Faculty at UCSB/CS has decided to do away with office phones. I disconnected mine on Nov 3. Please email me instead.
- Updated weekly schedule for the fall quarter.
- 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.
- 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
- Prospective graduate students
- Please read these Frequently Asked Questions before contacting me.
- Why you should come to UCSB, and Information for Admitted Students
- Please read this: This is what a PhD is, and why you should want one.
- For current UCSB (especially my) students
- How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper
- UCSB Only: Job listings, UCSB Fellowships, Preparing for the MAE
- My reading list for advisees.
- Archive of useful papers on networking, systems, security, etc.
- The Mutant cluster, online reservation system, usage and uptime statistics.
- Bits of accumulated wisdom (mostly for my reference):
- Cargo Cult Science, Cal Tech speech by Richard Feynman on scientific integrity.
- A talk on Technology and Courage, by Turing winner Ivan Sutherland.
- How to be a good graduate student
- Rugaber's notes on teaching, dissertations, and reading papers.
- Useful advice for PhD students
- Donald Knuth's All Questions Answered
- Songwu Lu's page On Research
Teaching
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Research
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- 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
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Professional Activities
- Program Committees
- IEEE P2P 2010, WOSN 2010, ICDCS 2010, WOWMOM 2010, IEEE P2P 2009, INFOCOM 2010, WISE 2009, SRDS 2009, Euro-Par 2009, SecureComm 2009, ICDCS 2009, INFOCOM 2009, ICPADS 2008, PMAC-2WN 2008, MoVeNet 2007, ICNP 2007, INFOCOM 2008, PMAC-2WN 2007, 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
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- Steering Committee: IPTPS, 2007 - Present
- Program Co-Chair: IEEE P2P 2010
- 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 Fax: +1 (805) 893-8553 
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