Top Chinese Professor in Carnegie Mellon University and Co-founder of Conviva Joins GSENetwork’s Team of Advisors GSENetwork Follow Jul 20, 2018 · 2 min read

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Hui Zhang to our team of advisors!

A professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the top 25 universities in US and recognized as a top 50 universities in the world, since 1995, Dr. Zhang has established himself as one of the world’s leading authorities on Internet Quality of Service (QoS), video streaming, network control and Internet architecture and the top Chinese professor in the field of distributed computing.

He has taught and mentored numerous computer network researchers who are now renowned names in the industry working in the likes of Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft. Dr. Zhang’s End System Multicast (ESM) research group at CMU pioneered the overlay multicast architecture and developed the world’s first peer-to-peer live streaming system.

He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1996 and held the Finmeccanica Chair in Computer Science at CMU for four years from 1998 to 2001. He subsequently received the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2000 and was elected to be a Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2006. ACM recognizes the top 1% of their members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and IT. Dr. Zhang was the first Chinese to be elected a Fellow of ACM!

Adding on to his illustrious career, Dr. Zhang also co-founded Conviva, a video AI measurement and analytics solutions provider headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with presence in nine cities globally. Till date, he continues to play a major leadership role in Conviva as Chief Scientist and Chairman of Board. In June 2017, Conviva announced that it had raised $40 million from strategic, new and existing investors to continue building its platform and business, and is estimated to be valued at approximately $300 million.

Prior to co-founding Conviva, Dr. Zhang held a pivotal role as Chief Technical Officer of Turin Networks from 2000 to 2003. Turin Networks went on to merge with Force10 Networks in 2009 and was eventually acquired by Dell in 2011.

Dr. Zhang is deeply passionate in the research of future Internet architecture and network control architecture and protocols and brings with him over 20 years of pioneering research experience in the design and building of technological architecture. This wealth of experience and strategic and technical advice is crucial to propel the team towards our vision of building the decentralized trust network for sharing economies.

Join us in welcoming Dr. Zhang to the GSENetwork family!