Hui Zhang's Email & Phone

As Conviva's co-founder and chief scientist, Dr. Zhang brings 20 years of pioneering research experience to the design and build of the company's media control platform. As a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Dr. Zhang has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Internet Quality of Service (QoS), video streaming, network control, and Internet architecture. Dr. Zhang is credited with teaching and mentoring many computer network researchers who are now in industry (Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft) and academia (University of California, Berkeley, Rice, Purdue). In particular, he supervised Ion Stoica's 2001 award-winning Ph.D. dissertation on Internet QoS. In addition, his End System Multicast (ESM) research group at CMU pioneered the overlay multicast architecture and developed the world's first peer-to-peer live streaming system. Dr. Zhang was elected to be a Fellow of ACM in 2006 and received the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2000. He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1996 and held the Finmeccanica Chair in Computer Science at CMU from 1998 to 2001. Prior to co-founding Conviva, Dr. Zhang served as chief technology officer of Turin Networks from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Zhang received a bachelor's degree from Beijing University, a master's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.