Yongguang ZHANG
Senior Researcher, Research Manager
Microsoft Research Asia
4F, Beijing Sigma Building · No. 49, Zhichun Road, Haidian District · Beijing, China 100190
Email: ygz (at) microsoft.com · Office: +8610-58965340

Yongguang Zhang joined Microsoft Research Asia in January 2006. His area of research includes mobile systems, networking, and security. His is currently managing and leading the Wireless and Networking research group.

Previously, Yongguang was a Senior Research Scientist at HRL Labs, where he led research efforts in internetworking techniques, system developments, and security mechanisms for satellite networks, ad-hoc networks, and 3G wireless systems. He was a co-PI in a DARPA Next Generation Internet project and a technical lead in five other DARPA-funded wireless network research projects. He developed several technologies that have been deployed in HRL, Boeing, and Hughes. Example major contributions include ML-IPsec protocol to enable both security and performance enhancements in wireless and satellite networks, a platform for implementing and testing mobile ad-hoc network systems, intrusion detections for ad-hoc networks, unidirectional link routing, and tools for next generation satellite network studies.

Yongguang received his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1994. From 2001 to 2003, he was also an adjunct assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published over 50 technical papers and one book, including top conferences and journals of his fields (like Sigcomm, Mobicom, Mobisys, ToN). He is an Associate Editor for IEEE transactions on Mobile Computing, was a guest editor in an ACM MONET Journal, and has organized and chaired/co-chaired several international conferences, workshops, and an IETF working group.

Research

See Wireless and Networking group home page.

Recent Publications (Selected):

• "DCell: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Network Structure for Data Centers", SIGCOMM 2008.
• "BeepBeep: A High Accuracy Acoustic Ranging System Using COTS Mobile Devices," SenSys 2007. (Also Best Demo Award)
• "MobiUS: Enable Together-Viewing Video Experience across Two Mobile Devices," MobiSys 2007. (Also Best Demo Award)
• "Proactive Scan: Fast Handoff with Smart Triggers for 802.11 Wireless LAN," Infocom 2007.

External Activities and Services

• Associated Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• TPC, Sigcomm 2007, ICNP 2007, Infocom 2009
• Adjunct Professor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
• Adjunct Professor, Zhongshan University
• Teaching: undergrad OS, Tsinghua University, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008

Opportunities

We are looking for exceptional full-time researcher and research interns. Please send your CV to msrajobs@microsoft.com. If you are interested in working with me and in the area of my interests, please also copy me. We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate high quality research taste and strong first-hand system building experience.

My non-Microsoft pages are at www.yongguangzhang.net