Honggang Zhang, Assistant Professor

Honggang Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

 

 

 

 

Phone: 617.573.8016
Fax: 617.573.8591
Email: hzhang@suffolk.edu
Office: Fenton Building, Rm. 628

 

Education

  • PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • MS, Purdue University
  • MS, Tianjin University
  • BS, Central South University

Research Interests

  • Computer networks & large scale distributed systems: information assurance & security in mobile wireless networks; internet, unstructured dynamic file sharing/media streaming networks, peer-to-peer networks, overlay; disruption/delay tolerant networks (DTN).
  • Performance modeling, simulation & experimental evaluation, inference/measurement.
  • Applications of optimization, stochastic modeling, statistical analysis, control theory, and game theory in distributed systems.

Awards

National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award 2009-2014

 

Research assistance from the College of Arts and Science at Suffolk University, 2008-2010

 

Research grant on security in mobile ad-hoc networks, from UMass Amherst/BAE Systems, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2008-2009

 

Professional Activities

Program Committee Member

IEEE INFOCOM 2010: The 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. San Diego, CA, USA. March 15-19, 2010.

 

IEEE International Conference on Communications 2010, Wireless and Mobile Networking Symposium (ICC 2010, WNS).

 

IEEE INFOCOM 2009: The 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. April 19 - 25, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

ACM Netecon'09: ACM Network Economics, 2009. In conjunction with the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, EC'09. Stanford, California, July 7, 2009.

 

GAMENETS 2009 -- International Conference on Game Theory for Networks. sponsored by IEEE, CSS, ICST, and Create-Net. In 13-15 May 2009, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

ICCCN 2008: 17th international conference on computer communications and networks, August 4-7 2008.

 

Membership

  • Member of the IEEE
  • Member of the ACM

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

CMPSC 123 Social and Technical Aspects in Computer Systems
CMPSC 132 Computer Science II 
CMPSC 265 Data Structures and Algorithms

 

Graduate

CMPSC 623 Analysis of Algorithms
CMPSC 677 Computer and Network Security
CMPSC 679 Networks Design