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Rong Zheng (鄭榕) Professor, PhD, P.Eng.Associate Chair of Graduate Study and Research Dept. of Computing and Software McMaster University ITB 121 Tel: +1(905)525-9140 x 22891 |
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Bio: (CV) Rong Zheng (S'03-M'04-SM'10) received her Ph.D. degree from Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned her M.E. and B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, P.R. China. She is now a Professor in the Dept. of Computing and Software, an associate member of the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engr., and a member of the School of Computational Science and Engineering in McMaster University, Canada. She was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, University of Houston from 2004 to 2012. Rong Zheng was a visiting Associate Professor in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from Aug. 2011 to Jan. 2012; and a visiting Research Scientist in Microsoft Research, Redmond between Feb. 2012 and May 2012. She is a member of the MacData institute and a Principle Investigator the Computing Infrastructure Research Centre (CIRC). Rong Zheng’s research interests include mobile computing, data analytics and networked systems. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006, and was a Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow from 2015 - 2018. She was recognized as having an established, superior research program that is highly rated in terms of originality and innovation, and was awarded the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement in 2019. She serves on the technical program committees of leading networking and mobile computing conferences including SenSys, INFOCOM, ICDCS, ICNP, RTSS, IPSN etc. She is currently an editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile computing. She has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Dr. Zheng was on the organization committee of MobiSys 2020 and SenSys 2019, and served as Program co-chair of WASA’12, CPSCom’12, MobileHealth’14, CrowdSenSys’17, general co-chair of EUC’16, and program co-chair of IEEE Smart IoT'20. Award and Honors:
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 Postdoc position TBA RA positions Two PhD openings (mobile computing and computer vision) for Sept, 2021. Qualified candidates should have BS and MS degrees in CS, ECE, or Mechatronics Engineering from reputable institutions. Dec., 2020 Dr. Zheng to serve as TPC co-chair of SenSys'21. Dec., 2020 Shervin Manzuri Shalmani has successfully defended his MSc thesis on "Confidence Distillation for Efficient Action Recognition"! Sept, 2020 One MSc and two MEng students join WiSeR. Welcome, Xijian Lou, Nazanin Moshtagh and Ruizhe Zhang! July, 2020 Yihao Fang has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Deep learning on the edge: model partitioning, caching, and compression" May, 2020 Dr. Zheng is the leading PI of a newly awarded NSERC CREATE grant on Smart Mobility for the Aging Population. April, 2020Two WiSeR members received MacData Fellowship. Congrats, Yujiao Hao and Jianpeng Liu! April, 2019 Dr. Zheng awarded Discovery Accelerator Supplement from NSERC. June, 2018 Dr. Zheng spoke on the plenary panel in 2018 Great Canadian Datacenter Symposim June, 2018 Mehdi Jafarizadeh and Christian Frincu won the first and second prizes in demo competition in CAS20 celebration. May, 2018 PhD candidate Yongyong Wei receives MacData Fellowship. May, 2018 New PhD student Yuhao Jiao joins group. Apr., 2018 Dr. Zheng presented in a panel on "Machine Learning and Big Data: Where do they fit in CPS" in IPSN'18. |
