Yongguang Zhang is a Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia, in the areas of mobile systems and networking. Before joining Microsoft in early 2006, he was a Senior Research Scientist at HRL Labs. He has made technical contributions in internetworking techniques, system developments, and security mechanisms for satellite networks, ad-hoc networks, and 3G wireless systems. He has been a co-PI in a DARPA Next Generation Internet project and has provided technical leaderships in five other DARPA-funded wireless network research projects. He has published over 50 technical papers and one book, was a guest editor in an ACM MONET Journal, has organized and chaired/co-chaired several international conferences and workshops, and was a founding co-chair of the IETF UDLR working group. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1994. He was also an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin from 2001 to 2003.
Yongguang Zhang received his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1994. He then joined Hughes Research Laboratories (which later became HRL Laboratories LLC as a central research facility for Boeing, Raytheon, and GM) as a Research Staff Member, and was promoted to Senior Research Staff in 1999, then to the Senior Research Scientist title in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught CS courses in mobile computing and wireless networks, network security, and Linux kernel programming. Since 2006, he is a Research Manager with Microsoft Research Asia.
Yongguang Zhang's current research area is in mobile systems and networks. He has a broad interest in satellite systems, network security, sensors and embedded systems, Internet and distributed systems, operating systems and platforms. He has made significant scientific contributions in internetworking techniques, system developments, and security mechanisms for satellite networks, ad-hoc networks, and 3G wireless systems. He was the chief designer of a high-speed digital wireless network for DARPA, an advanced satellite network simulator that is used in Hughes in designing its next generation broadband services, and several internetworking techniques that have been used by Boeing and Hughes in their military and civilian wireless network systems.
In addition to leading research projects in networking area, Yongguang Zhang's major responsibilities at HRL also included capturing and executing externally funded research contracts (e.g. from DARPA). He has been a co-PI in a DARPA Next Generation Internet project, and has provided technical leaderships or actively participated in five other DARPA-funded wireless network research projects, including High-speed Digital Wireless Battlefield Network (TRP), Global Mobile Information Systems (GloMo), Deployable and Adaptive Mobile Ad-hoc Networks with On-board-switch-based Cellular Networks (SUO/OBS), Airborne Communication Nodes (ACN), and Connectionless Networking (CN). He had helped HRL building three research directions in satellite networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, and information security.
Yongguang Zhang has published over 50 technical papers, two US patents, and one edited book. He was a Guest Editor for an issue of ACM MONET Journal, the primary organizer and Co-Chair for ACM Workshop on Satellite-Based Information Services (WOSBIS'97), Technical Area Co-Chair for the 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'2004), and a founding Co-Chair of IETF UniDirectional Link Routing (UDLR) working group.