Honggang Zhang, Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Suffolk University
32 Derne Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114


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


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.

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2006, University of Massachusetts Amherst

M.S. in Industrial Engineering, 2000, Purdue University

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

Courses Taught

Graduate:

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

Undergraduate:

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

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.