Computer Science University of California, Santa barbara
Heather Zheng
I am currently an Adjunct Professor at the Department of
Computer Science at UCSB. I was a faculty member at CS UCSB between 2005-2017. Since July 1,
2017, I am
the Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. Please visit my
UChicago webpage
for updated info. I received my PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Maryland,
College Park in 1999.
I was selected as one of the
MIT Technology Review's TR
35 (2005) for my work on Cognitive Radios; my work was
featured by MIT Technology Review as one of the
10 Emerging Technologies (2006); and I am a fellow of the
World Technology Network. I am an IEEE Fellow
(class'15). More
details can be found in my Curriculum
Vitae.
My Research
My general research areas include wireless networking and systems,
mobile and social computing. My current research is on mmWave networking,
wireless data centers, cognitive radios
and dynamic spectrum access, and social networking. Please see SAND Lab Page for specific projects.
One of our current projects is to develop outdoor
60GHz picocells aiming at delivering 1000x
more bandwidth to celluar users. This project is supported by NSF and Google. Our first result
appeared at MobiCom'14.
Another project, also funded by NSF, is on crowdsourcing enabled spectrum monitoring and
enforcement. Our initial result appeared at HotWireless'14.
Past
Research: My research spreads across multiple layers. At
Microsoft Research Asia, I initiated and led the Nautilus
project on Open Spectrum
Systems; At Wireless Research Lab, Bell-Labs, I worked on Radio
Resource
Allocation for Broadband
Wireless Networks including MIMO/BLAST, Network Scheduling and TCP,
and Base
Station Router. My
Ph.D. thesis
research at Univ. of Maryland, College Park was on
multimedia communications, a cross layer design framework to provide
resource-efficient multimedia delivery over noisy networks. Here are
the links to some of my collection
of past
projects.
Teaching
Winter 2016: CS290F - Smartphone-centric Systems and
Applications
Professional Activities
TPC co-Chair: DySPAN 2011, MobiCom 2015
Workshop co-Chair: SDR'09
Recent TPC Activities: WWW'14, DySPAN'14, MobiCom'13, SECON'13, WWW'13,
NSDI'13, MobiCom'12, DySPAN'12, Wisec'12,
Sigcomm'11, MobiCom'11,Infocom'11
Journals: Trans. on Networking (Assoc. Editor, 2013- ), Trans. on Mobile Computing (Assoc.
Editor, 2008-13), Trans. on Wireless
Communication (Editor, 2008-09), Physical Communication (Editorial Board &
Guest Editor)