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"The art of science is to discover difference
amid commonality and to discover commonality amid difference."
-- Zhang Ying
| Research | Professional Services | Projects | Publications | Awards | Curriculum Vita |
Dr. Ying Zhang is a member of research staff at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) since January 1999. After received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in November, 1994, she joined Xerox Wilson Center for Research and Technology in Rochester, NY, as a technical specialist/project manager for three years, later transferred to Xerox Architecture Center in Palo Alto, California. At PARC, she led software architecture for the distributed control of modular reconfigurable robots, and was a major technical contributor to PARC's NEST (Network Embedded System Technology) project, focused on sensor networks. Currently, she is a Co-PI for LANdroids, a DARPA program on mobile relay networks. Dr. Zhang is the information director and an associate editor of the ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks, and has served as TPC, guest editors, and NSF review panelist on sensor networks.
Ying was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China. After received her bachelor and master degrees from Computer Science, Zhejiang University in 1987, she continued her graduate study at UBC, Vancouver, Canada. She lives now with her husband and two children in Silicon Valley, California. In addition to her work, she has been practicing Yoga and is enthusiastic in learning difference classes of dance.
The principle that guides my research, as Chairman Mao once taught us, is "From Practice to Theory and then from Theory to Practice". Instead of looking for an application that would fit to a possible solution, I like to discover a problem in the real world and find a best solution that solves the problem. I am interested in communication architectures and protocols for real-time embedded systems, as well as programming, control and optimization for dynamic, modular reconfigurable systems.
Editorial
Guest Editors
Technical Program Committee
ICCCN09, DCOSS09, InFoCom09, EmNets08, CCNC08, (SS IVPWSN), ICDCS08, ISSNIP07, CISN07, InfoCom08, RTSS07, Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks, Real-Time Systems Journal, WASA06, AHUC06, DCOSS06, ICDCS06, RTSS05, WirelessCom05, AINA06/PCAC06, EmNetS-I
Tutorial
Web Chair: SenSys2008
Publicity Chair:IPSN2009, IPSN2008, IPSN2007
Publication Chair: IPSN2003
Workshop Co-chair:
1999: International Workshop on Constraints in Control
Panelist: NSF NeTS04, NSF NeTS06
STAM (System of Tracking And Mapping)
Rmase (Routing Modeling Application Simulation Environment)
PARSL/PARPA (Phase Automata Robot Script Language / Phase Automata Robot Programming Environment) [zip]
PBSim (PolyBot Locomotion Simulator) [run applet (install Java 3D first)] [zip]
RDSim (Rhombic Dodecahedron Self-Reconfiguration Simulator) [run applet (install Java 3D first)] [zip]
MDCN (Massively Distributed Control Nets)
Amber/Matlab Interface (Automatically generates stubs and makefiles for Matlab interface to C)
Best Paper Award, 2007: "Localizing Tags using Mobile Infrastructure", 3rd International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness, written by Y. Zhang, K. Partridge and J. Reich
PARC Team Excellence Award, 2006 (Fujitsu ITS Team)
PARC Excellence Award, 2006 (NEST)
PARC Special Recognition Award, 2004 (NEST)
PARC Excellence Award, 2003
PARC Outstanding Performance Award, 2003 (TIPP)
Xerox Team Excellence Award, 2000 (Modular Robotics Team)
Xerox Achievement Award, 1999
Xerox DAE/ASD Team Excellence Award, 1998
Xerox Achievement Award, 1998
Xerox CR&T Appreciation Award, 1997
Xerox Achievement Award, 1997
Postgraduate fellowship from NSERC, 1994 --- 1995
University Graduate Fellowship from UBC, 1991 -- 1992
University Graduate Fellowship from UBC, 1989 -- 1991
University Student Scholarship from Zhejiang University, 1984
University Student Scholarship from Zhejiang University, 1983
First Class Award (Second Place) in Nanchang City’s High School Student
Competition in Physics, 1979
last updated by Ying Zhang 12/30/2008
Zhang Ying (yzhang@parc.com)