Rong Zheng

565 Philip G. Hoffman Hall
4800 Calhoun Rd.
Houston, Texas 77204-3010

Office: (713) 743-2663
Fax: (713) 743-3335
Email: rzheng@cs.uh.edu

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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 on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, University of Houston since 2004, currently an associate professor.

Rong Zheng's research interests include network monitoring and diagnosis, cyber physical systems, and sequential learning and decision theory. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006. She serves on the technical program committees of leading networking conferences including INFOCOM, ICDCS, ICNP, etc. She served as a guest editor for EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special issue on wireless location estimation and tracking, Elsevler’s Computer Communications – Special Issue on Cyber Physical Systems.

Award and Honors:

• University research excellence award, 2010
• Departmental academic accomplishment award, 2009
• NSF CAREER Award, 2006

• Technical program committee member: INFOCOM, ICDCS, ICNP, SECON (and many others)
• Organization committee member: ACM FOWANC 2008, ACM WiMD 2009 (program chair), ICST QShine 2010
• Guest editor: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special issue on wireless location estimation and tracking
• Guest editor: Elsevler's Computer Communications -- Special Issue on Cyber Physical Systems

Active Research Projects:

• Robust resource management in ISM bands (NSF CNS-0832084)
• Wireless Structure Health Monitoring (NSF CNS-0832089, CCSS-CPS 1102195)
• Wireless Co-existence in Safe Critical Environments (NSF CNS-1117560)

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Khuong Vu, Rong Zheng, Geometric Algorithms for Target Localization and Tracking Under Location Uncertainties in Wireless Sensor Networks, INFOCOM 2012
2. Khuong Vu, Rong Zheng, Jie Gao, Efficient Algorithms for K -Anonymous Location Privacy in Participatory Sensing, INFOCOM 2012
3. Yunghsiang Sam Han, Rong Zheng, Wai Ho Mow, Exact Regenerating Codes for Byzantine Fault Tolerance in Distributed Storage, INFOCOM 2012
4. Huy A. Nguyen, Rong Zheng, Binary Independent Component Analysis with OR Mixtures, in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, August, 2011

• RA openings to motivated Ph.D. candidates for Fall 2012. See details.
• MS thesis topics available. Please email me for more information.

Upcoming trips:

• Keynote speech, ISET'11, Jeju, South Korea (May 18 -- 23rd)
• I will be on sabbatical leave in Hong Kong, China (August 1st, 2011 -- Jan. 31, 2012)
• I will be visiting Microsoft Research (Redmond) (Feb. 06, 2012 -- June 01, 2012)
• Orland, FL (INFOCOM) (March 28th -- March 30th)