Feng Zhao
Principal
Researcher and Manager
Networked Embedded Computing Group
Microsoft Research
Editor-In-Chief,
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
Steering Committee Chair, ACM/IEEE IPSN
Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, ACM
Sensys'05
Member, Board of Directors, ACM SIGBED
Address:
Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052-6399, USA
Tel. 425-706-8777; Fax: 425-936-7329
I am a
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and manage the Networked Embedded
Computing Group. My current research focuses on networked embedded systems such
as sensor networks, power and resource management in distributed systems, and
mobility. I have also done work on parallel processing, fast N-body algorithms,
machine recognition, qualitative reasoning, and diagnostics.
I received
my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, have taught at
Stanford University and Ohio State University and currently also serve as an
Affiliate Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at University of
Washington. I was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC and founded PARC’s
research effort in sensor networks and distributed diagnostics. I serve as the
founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and have
authored or co-authored over 100 technical papers and books, including a recent
book published by Morgan Kaufmann — Wireless Sensor Networks: An information processing
approach. I received a Sloan Research Fellowship and NSF and ONR Young
Investigator Awards, and was named as an ACM Distinguished Engineer in 2006. My
work has been featured in news media such as BBC World News, BusinessWeek, and
Technology Review.
News
| Talks | Book | Publications
News
- Sensor Network Academic Resource Kit 2007
released, July 2007
- mPlatform:
A Lego-Like Approach to Sensor Research by Rob Knies, June 1, 2007
- SensorMap:
Browsing the Physical World in Real-Time: an External Research Program
with 11 universities worldwide.
- SenseWeb Project was
cited in "The
Year in Infotech", MIT Technology Review, December 2006
- mPlatform,
a heterogeneous multi-processor embedded platform, was developed,
September 2006
- SensorMap, a
wide-area sensor web for publishing and browsing live sensor data from the
SenseWeb Project
- UW/MSR Summer
Institute on World-Wide Sensor Web, August 6-9, 2006, Semiahmoo,
Washington, USA.
- MSR Sense Toolkit,
a collection of tools for sensornet data collection, processing and
visualization, released on December 16, 2005
- Sensor
Networks Get a Kick-Start, by Rob Knies
- Microsoft
Research Sensor Networks Workshop 2005, October 10-11, 2005,
Woodinville, Washington, USA
- How to
Build a Smart World, by Suzanne Ross of Microsoft Research News
Recent Talks
- Sensornet 2.0: the new frontier, Keynote at
the 27th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'06),
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 6, 2006.
- Recent Progress on Sensor
Networks and Embedded Computing, Talk at Microsoft Research Faculty
Summit 2006, Redmond, WA, July 18, 2006.
- Sensors meet World Wide Web: searching and
organizing world’s real-time information, Keynote at IEEE
International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy
Computing (SUTC’06), Taiwan, June 5, 2006
- Challenge Problems in Sensornet Research,
Keynote at NSF NOSS PI meeting at Harvard and Distinguished Lectures at
Johns Hopkins and Princeton, October 18-21, 2005.
- Challenges in Programming Sensor Networks,
Keynote at International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor
Systems (DCOSS), Los Angeles, July 1, 2005.
- Wireless Sensor Networks: Seamless
computing across the physical and PC worlds, Talk at Microsoft
Research Faculty Summit 2004, Redmond, WA, August 2, 2004 (Abstract).
- Challenges in Designing Information
Processing Sensor Networks, Talk at NSF Workshop on Networking of
Sensor Systems, Marina Del Rey, California, February 20, 2004.
Book: Feng Zhao and Leonidas Guibas, Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing
Approach. Morgan Kaufmann (ISBN 1-55860-914-8), 2004.
The book is
based on a class
Leo and I have been teaching at Stanford.
Selected Recent Publications
- Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz,
Aman Kansal, and Feng Zhao, "
Toward Community Sensing," ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
(IPSN), April 22-24, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Bodhi
Priyantha, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, "
Towards Energy Efficient Design of Multi-Radio
Platforms for Wireless Sensor Networks," ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
(IPSN), April 22-24, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Bodhi Priyantha, Aman Kansal,
Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, "
Tiny Web Services for Sensor Device Interoperability,"
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor
Networks (IPSN), Demo Abstract, April 22-24, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri,
USA.
- Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu,
Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, and Feng Zhao, "
Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching
for Connection-Intensive Internet Services," 5th USENIX
Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI'08),
April 16–18, 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- David Chu, Feng Zhao, Jie Liu,
and Michel Gorczko, "
Que: A Sensor Network Rapid Prototyping Tool With
Application Experiences From A Data Center Deployment,"
The 5th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2008),
Bologna, Italy, 30 Jan-1 Feb, 2008.
- Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie
Liu, and Feng Zhao, "
SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing.",
IEEE Multimedia. Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 8-13, October-December 2007.
- Suman
Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "SensorMap
for Wide-Area Sensor Webs." IEEE Computer Magazine, 40(7), pp.
90-93, July, 2007.
- Aman Kansal and Feng Zhao,
"
Location and Mobility in a Sensor Network of Mobile
Phones." ACM SIGMM 17th International workshop on Network
and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video (NOSSDAV),
June 4-5, 2007, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
- Dimitrios
Lymberopoulos, Nissanka B. Priyantha, and Feng Zhao, " mPlatform: A Reconfigurable Architecture
and Efficient Data Sharing Mechanism for Modular Sensor Nodes."
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information
Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2007), Cambridge, MA, April 25-27,
2007.
Programming,
Services, and Architectures
- Kamin
Whitehouse, Feng Zhao, and Jie Liu, "Semantic Streams: A Framework for
Composable Semantic Interpretation of Sensor Data." Proceedings
of the 3rd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2006),
Zurich, Switzerland, February 13-15, 2006, pp. 5-20. (Also appeared as Microsoft Research Technical Report
MSR-TR-2005-45, April 2005 and as ACM Sensys'05 Poster Abstract, November 2-4,
2005.)
- Jie
Liu and Feng Zhao, "Towards
Semantic Services for Sensor-Rich Information Systems, " The 2nd
IEEE/CreateNet International Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor
Networks (Basenets 2005), Boston, MA, Oct. 3, 2005.
- Jie
Liu, Maurice Chu, Juan Liu, James Reich, and Feng Zhao, “State-Centric Programming for
Sensor-Actuator Network Systems.” IEEE Pervasive Computing, October,
2003, pp.50-62.
- Juan
Liu, Jie Liu, James Reich, Patrick Cheung, and Feng Zhao, “Distributed Group Management for Track
Initiation and Maintenance in Target Localization Applications,” The
2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
(IPSN’03), Palo Alto, CA, April 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS 2634), Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 113-128.
- Elaine
Cheong, Judy Liebman, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, “TinyGALS:
A Programming Model for Event-Driven Embedded Systems”, The 18th ACM
Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’03), Melbourne, FL, March, 2003, pp.
698-704.
- Feng
Zhao, Chris Bailey-Kellogg, Markus Fromherz, "Physics-based Encapsulation in Embedded
Software for Distributed Sensing and Control Applications."
Proceedings of the IEEE, 91(1):40-63, Jan. 2002.
Optimization,
Coordination, and Tools
- Zoe
Abrams, Ho-Lin Chen, Leonidas Guibas, Jie Liu and Feng Zhao, "Kinetically Stable Task Assignment for Networks
of Microservers." Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International
Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006),
Nashville, TN, April 19-21, 2006.
- Juan
Liu, Ying Zhang, and Feng Zhao, "Robust
Distributed Node Localization with Error Management." Proceedings
of the 7th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and
Computing (Mobihoc 2006), Florence, Italy, May 22-25, 2006.
- Alec
Woo, Siddharth Seth, Tim Olson, Jie Liu and Feng Zhao, "A Spreadsheet Approach to Programming and
Managing Sensor Networks." Proceedings of IPSN'06, Track on
Sensor Platform, Tools and Design Methods for Networked Embedded Systems
(SPOTS 2006), Nashville, TN, April 19-21, 2006.
- Siddharth
Seth, Alec Woo, Tim Olson, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "Demo Abstract: A Spreadsheet Toolkit for
Streaming Sensor Data," Demo at The 3rd ACM Conference on Embedded
Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2005), San Diego, CA, Nov. 2-4, 2005.
- Jie
Liu, Elaine Cheong, and Feng Zhao, "Semantics-Based Optimization Across
Uncoordinated Tasks in Networked Embedded Systems," Proceedings
of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2005), Jersey City,
New Jersey, September 18-22, 2005.
Collaborative
Processing, Reasoning, and Tracking
- Feng
Zhao, Jie Liu, Juan Liu, Leonidas Guibas, and James Reich, “Collaborative Signal and Information Processing:
An Information Directed Approach”, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91.
No. 8, August, 2003, pp. 1199-1209.
- Feng
Zhao, Jaewon Shin, and James Reich, "Information-Driven
Dynamic Sensor Collaboration for Tracking Applications." IEEE
Signal Processing Magazine, 19(2):61-72, March 2002.
- Juan
Liu, James Reich, and Feng Zhao, "Collaborative
In-Network Processing for Target Tracking." EURASIP Journal on
Applied Signal Processing, 2003(4):378-391, March 2003.
- Maurice
Chu, Horst Haussecker, and Feng Zhao, "Scalable
information-driven sensor querying and routing for ad hoc heterogeneous
sensor networks." Int'l J. High Performance Computing
Applications, 16(3):90-110, Fall 2002. Also, Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center Technical Report P2001-10113, May 2001.
- Jaewon
Shin, Leonidas Guibas, and Feng Zhao, ``A
Distributed Algorithm for Managing Multi-Target Identities in Wireless
Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks.'' Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on
Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'03), April, 2003.
- Jie
Liu, Patrick Cheung, Leonidas Guibas, and Feng Zhao, "Apply Geometric Duality to Energy Efficient
Non-Local Phenomenon Awareness Using Sensor Networks," IEEE
Wireless Communication Magazine, special issue on Wireless Sensor
Networks: Theory and Systems, Dec. 2004.
Routing
and Information Discovery
- Juan
Liu, Feng Zhao, and Dragan Petrovic, "Information-directed
routing in ad hoc sensor networks." IEEE Journal on Selected
Areas in Communications, Volume 23, Issue 4, April 2005, pp:851-861.
- Qing
Fang, Jie Liu, Leonidas Guibas, and Feng Zhao, “RoamHBA:
Maintaining Group Connectivity in Sensor Networks,” The 3rd
International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
(IPSN’04), Berkeley, CA, April, 2004.
- Xue
Yang, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao, and Nitin Vaidya, “A
Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocol for Improving Road Safety,”
The 1st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking
and Services (Mobiquitous 2004), Boston, MA, Aug. 22-26, 2004.
- Qing
Fang, Feng Zhao, and Leonidas Guibas, "Lightweight
Sensing and Communication Protocols for Target Enumeration and Aggregation."
The ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc
2003), 2003.
General
- Feng
Zhao, "Introduction to ACM
Transactions on Sensor Networks." Inaugural Issue, August 2005