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Hui Zhang is an entrepreneur, a computer science researcher, and a professor.

As an entrepreneur, Dr. Zhang, together with Ion Stoica, Aditya Ganjam, and Jibin Zhan, co-founded Conviva, where he is now Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board. Conviva is the global leader of measurement and intelligence platform for streaming entertainment. Zhang also served as the Chief Technology Officer of Turin Networks from 2000 to 2003.

As a researcher, Dr. Zhang has done pioneering research in Internet QoE, video streaming, network architecture, and real-time big data analytics. Zhang’s End System Multicast (ESM) project pioneered the overlay multicast architecture and developed the world’s first peer-to-peer live streaming system. The ESM paper published in year 2000 won the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award in year 2011. His 4D research project advocated the network control architecture that separates control logic from data devices, and was the precursor to the Software Defined Networks (SDN) initiative. The 4D paper published in year 2005 won the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in year 2015.

As a professor, Dr. Zhang has mentored many students. Dr. Zhang supervised Ion Stoica’s Ph.D. dissertation which won ACM Dissertation Award in 2001. More recently,  he co-advised, with Vyas Sekar (a former student of his), Junchen Jiang's PhD thesis, which won the 2017 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award. His former students include university professors (Ion Stoica at UC Berkeley, Eugene Ng at Rice, Vyas Sekar at Carnegie Mellon, Sanjay Rao at Purdue, and Junchen Jiang at University of Chicago), entrepreneurs (Ion Stoica, Donpaul Stephens, Jon Bennett, Aditya Ganjam, Xin Zhang, Yinglian Xie as co-founders of startups), and computer scientists at leading companies (Yanghua Chu at Waymo, Hong Yan at Facebook, Dave Maltz at Microsoft, Andy Myers at Jane Street, Frank Le at IBM).

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. Zhang received a bachelor’s degree from Beijing University, a master’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley.