EDUCATION

Executive Summary

Rui Zhang received the B.E. in Communication Engineering and the M.E. in Communication and Information System from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, in 2013. He has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences Department at University of Delaware since 2016. Prior to joining UDel, he had been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii from 2013 to 2016 and a software engineer in UTStarcom Shenzhen R&D center from 2005 to 2007. His primary research interests are security and privacy issues in wireless networks, mobile crowdsourcing, mobile systems for disabled people, cloud computing, and social networks. He received the US National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2017.

Research Areas

• Computer Systems, Networks, and Security
• Human-Computer Interaction