Zheng Peng

Assistant Professor
Computer Science

Underwater Wireless Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks

Network Optimization and Protocol Design

Embedded Systems and Operating Systems

Resume

Zheng Peng

Research Interests

— Wireless Sensor Networks and Underwater Wireless Networks
— Embedded Systems and Underwater Embedded Systems
— Network Optimization and Protocol Design
— Computer Architecture
— Operating Systems
— Testbed Design and Development

 

Work Experience

— Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, City College of New York, 8/2016 – Current
— Assistant Research Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 6/1/2012 – 9/30/2015
— Research Assistant, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 8/2005 – 5/2012
— Part-time Lecturer, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 3/2004 – 1/2005
— Intern, MediCom Co., China, 5/2003 – 6/2003;
— Research Assistant, Computer Science and Technology Department, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 9/2002 – 7/2005
— Hardware Engineer, Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd., China, 6/2002 – 9/2002
— Intern, Sichuan Sunnyhope Pharmaceutical Co., LTD., China, 6/2000 – 7/2000

 

Education

— PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Aug, 2012
— Master's degree, Computer Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Mar, 2005
— Bachelor's degree, Control Theory, Zhejiang University, Jul, 2002
— Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Jul, 2002

 

Honors and Awards

— PSC-CUNY Research Award, May 2018.
— Outstanding Service Award, the eleventh ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks (WUWNet’16), Oct 2016.
— Research work featured in UConn Today, the university’s daily news site, Jun 11, 2014
— Research work featured in Momentum, an UConn engineering electronic publication, May 28, 2014
— Best Paper Award in IFIP Networking 2013
— Best Paper Award in WUWNet 2013
— Spotlight paper of the January 2012 issue of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Jan. 2012
— Best demo award, UConn Tech-forum, May 2012
— Best demo award, WUWNET, Sep. 2010
— Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UCONN, Sep. 2010
— UbiNeter of the Year award for excellence in research, UWSN lab, UCONN, Jan. 2010
— Taylor Booth Memorial Graduate Fellowship, for excellence in teaching, UCONN, Sep. 2009
— Certificate of appreciation, for mentoring minority students, Northeast Alliance at University of Connecticut Summer Research Program, Aug. 2009
— First-class fellowship for outstanding academic performance, UESTC, Sep. 2004
— Fellowship for excellence in academic performance, Zhejiang University, Sep. 2001

 

Technical Program Committee (TPC)

— TPC member of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, October 8-13, 2017, Montreal, QC, Canada.
— TPC member of the 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017), December 4-8, 2017, Singapore.
— TPC member of the 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'16), October 24-26, 2016, Sahnghai, P.R.China.
— TPC member of the 10th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'15), October 22-24, 2015, Washington DC, USA.
— TPC member of the 9th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'14), November 12-14, 2014, Rome, Italy.
— TPC member of the 6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM'11), August 17-19, 2011, Harbin, China.

 

Conference Chair

— TPC chair of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'18), December 3-5, 2018, Shanghai, P.R.China.
— Session chair of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'18), December 3-5, 2018, Shanghai, P.R.China.
— Publication chair of the 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'16), October 24–26, 2016, Shanghai, P.R.China.
— Session chair of the 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'16), October 24–26, 2016, Shanghai, P.R.China.
— Publication chair of the 10th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'15), October 22-24, 2015, Washington DC, USA.
— Session chair of the 10th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'15), October 22-24, 2015, Washington DC, USA.
— Session chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, Dec 8–12, 2014, Austin, Texas, USA.
— Session chair of the 9th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'14), November 12–14, 2014, Rome, Italy.
— Publicity chair of the 8th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'13), November 11–13, 2013, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
— Session chair of IEEE SECON'14 on Sensor Networks: Systems, IEEE OCEANS'11 on Marine Communications and Technology, July 1-3, 2014, Singapore.
— Web chair of the Sixth ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet'11), December 1 - 2, 2011. Seattle, Washington, USA.
— Web chair of the Fifth ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet'10), September 30 - October 1, 2010. Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.

 

Journal Paper Review

— Paper reviewer for ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
— Paper reviewer for Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks
— Paper reviewer for Elsevier Computer Communications
— Paper reviewer for Elsevier Computer Networks
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Communication Letters
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Sensors Journal
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Signal Processing Letters
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Systems Journal
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Communications
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular technology
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
— Paper reviewer for International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
— Paper reviewer for Journal of Zhejiang University Science C (Computers & Electronics)
— Paper reviewer for MDPI Sensors
— Paper reviewer for Ocean Engineering
— Paper reviewer for Springer Wireless Networks

 

Conference Paper Review

— Paper reviewer for the 13th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA'18)
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Conference on Computer Communications 2017 (INFOCOM'17)
— Paper reviewer for the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'17)
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Conference on Computer Communications 2016 (INFOCOM'16)
— Paper reviewer for ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems 2015 (WUWNet'15)
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Conference on Computer Communications 2015 (INFOCOM'15)
— Paper reviewer for ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems 2014 (WUWNet'14)
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Conference on Computer Communications 2014 (INFOCOM'14)
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2013 (WCNC 2013)
— Paper reviewer for Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications 2012 (WASA 2012)
— Paper reviewer for the 6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM'11)
— Paper reviewer for ICCCN 2009 Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN'2009)
— Paper reviewer for the Fourth ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet'09)
— Paper reviewer for the Fifth International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2009)
— Paper reviewer for IFIP Wireless Days, 2008
— Paper reviewer for IEEE Globecom 2008 Wireless Networking Symposium

 

Editorial Service

— Guest Editor, MDPI Sensors, Special Issue "Intelligent Underwater Systems: Sensing, Communication, Networking and Applications", 2019
— Guest Editor, MDPI Sensors, Special Issue "Underwater Sensing, Communication, Networking and Systems", 2018
— Guest Editor: Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, Special Issue "Underwater Sensor Networks and Underwater Cyber-Physical Systems", 2017

 

Dissertation Committee

— PhD   Lina Pu, University of Connecticut
— PhD   Yu Luo, University of Connecticut
— PhD   Ying Li, University of New Hampshire
— PhD   Son Le, University of Connecticut
— PhD   Haining Mo, University of Connecticut
— PhD   Yibo Zhu, University of Connecticut
— Master   Chunxia Bai, University of Connecticut

 

Other Professional Activitiy

— WUWNet mailing list administrator (over 800 Subscribers)

 

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