Rong

 

Rong Zheng

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Houston

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


Bio: (CV)

Rong Zheng received her Ph.D. degree from Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2004 and earned her M.E. and B.E. in Electrical Engineering in May 1998 and June 1996 from Tsinghua University, P.R. China. Rong Zheng received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006. She is presently a member of IEEE Computer Society and ACM.


Research Interest:

  • Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
  • Distributed Algorithms
  • Network Simulation
  • Performance Modeling

Professional Activities:

  • Technical program committee member: INFOCOM (2007, 2008, 2009), ICDCS (2006, 2008), SECON (2008,2009), IFIP networking (2006, 2007)
  • Organization committee member: WICON 2005, ACM FOWANC 2008
  • Guest editor: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special issue on wireless location estimation and tracking

Selected Recent Publications (complete list)

  1. Rong Zheng and Amit Pendharkar, Obstacle Discovery in Distributed Active Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the 28th Annu al Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM), 2009
  2. Cunqing Hua, SongWei and Rong Zheng, Robust Channel Assignment for Link-level Resource Provisioning in Multi-radio Multi-channel Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2008
  3. Cunqing Hua and Rong Zheng, Starvation Modeling and Identification in Dense 802.11 Wireless Community Networks, in Proc. of The 26th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM), 2008
  4. Rong Zheng, Asymptotic Bounds of Information Dissemination in Power-constrained Wireless Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, Num. 1, 2008
  5. Rong Zheng and Richard Barton, Toward Optimal Data Aggregation in Random Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proc. of The 27th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM), 2007

News

  • RA openings to motivated Ph.D. candidates for Fall 09.
  • MS thesis topics available. Please email me for more information.