I am a researcher in the Networking Research Group at Microsoft Research. I received my Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 2005. Before joining MSR, I was a member of Network Systems Group at Princeton.

Publications:

Detecting Traffic Differentiation in Backbone ISPs with NetPolice
Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Ming Zhang
IMC 2009

Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics
Theophilus A Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Ming Zhang
SIGCOMM WREN Workshop 2009

Pretty-Bad-Proxy: An Overlooked Adversary in Browsers' HTTPS Deployments
Shuo Chen, Ziqing Mao, Yi-Min Wang, Ming Zhang
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2009

Automating Network Application Dependency Discovery: Experiences, Limitations, and New Solutions
Xu Chen, Ming Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Victor Bahl
OSDI 2008

Ascertaining the Reality of Network Neutrality Violation in Backbone ISPs
Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Ming Zhang
HotNets 2008

Uncovering Performance Differences in Backbone ISPs with Netdiff
Ratul Mahajan, Ming Zhang, Lindsey Poole, Vivek Pai
NSDI 2008

Effective Diagnosis of Routing Disruptions from End Systems
Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Ming Zhang
NSDI 2008

Towards Highly Reliable Enterprise Network Services via Inference of Multi-level Dependencies
Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Albert Greenberg, Srikanth Kandula, David A. Maltz, Ming Zhang
SIGCOMM 2007

Discovering Dependencies for Network Management
Paramvir Bahl, Paul Barham, Richard Black, Ranveer Chandra, Moises Goldszmidt, Rebecca Isaacs, Srikanth Kandula, Lun Li, John MacCormick, David A. Maltz, Richard Mortier, Mike Wawrzoniak, Ming Zhang
HotNets 2006

WiFiProfiler: Cooperative Diagnosis in Wireless LANs
Ranveer Chandra, Venkata Padmanabhan, Ming Zhang
MobiSys 2006

How DNS Misnaming Distorts Internet Topology Mapping
Ming Zhang, Yaoping Ruan, Vivek Pai, Jennifer Rexford
USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2006

PlanetSeer: Internet Path Failure Monitoring and Characterization in Wide-Area Services
Ming Zhang, Chi Zhang, Vivek Pai, Larry Peterson, Randolph Wang
OSDI 2004

A Transport Layer Approach for Improving End-to-End Performance and Robustness Using Redundant Paths
Ming Zhang, Junwen Lai, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Larry Peterson, Randolph Wang
USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2004.

Network-Embedded Programmable Storage and Its Applications
Sumeet Sobti, Junwen Lai, Yilei Shao, Nitin Garg, Chi Zhang, Ming Zhang, Fengzhou Zheng, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Wang
3rd IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference (NETWORKING) 2004.

Distance Learning Technologies for Basic Education in Disadvantaged Areas
Junwen Lai, Elisha Ziskind, Fengzhou Zheng, Yilei Shao, Chi Zhang, Ming Zhang, Nitin Garg, Sumeet Sobti, Randolph Wang, Arvind Krishnamurthy.
8th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE) 2004.

RR-TCP: A Reordering-Robust TCP with DSACK
Ming Zhang, Brad Karp, Sally Floyd, Larry Peterson
IEEE ICNP 2003.

Probabilistic Packet Scheduling: Achieving Proportional Share Bandwidth Allocation for TCP Flows
Ming Zhang, Randolph Wang, Larry Peterson Arvind Krishnamurthy
IEEE INFOCOM 2002.