Liang Zhang
PhD Student
Education
- BS, College of Informatics, South China Agricultural University
About Liang
- Hometown: Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
- Field of Study: Distributed systems and networking
- PhD Advisor: Alan Mislove
What are the specifics of your graduate education?
My research is based on rethinking the architecture of the web and cloud computing services. In the web, I have been leveraging the advances in web browsers to provide new architectures for web services. In cloud computing, I’m developing a new approach to selling cloud computation that provides a better fit for end-user processes.
What are your research interests?
My research focuses on the fundamental of the web, such as: how content is being served, and, can we provide users with greater control and privacy over their data? Driven by these questions, my work involves building new types of applications that protect user privacy while being economically feasible for end users.
What’s one problem you’d like to solve with your research/work?
Provide end users with greater control and privacy over their data, and bring the benefits of cloud computing to them as well.
What aspect of what you do is most interesting?
As a graduate student, the best part is I can work on interesting and challenge research problems.
What are your research or career goals, going forward?
Ideally, I’d like to be involved in both research and actual product engineering. I enjoy having one foot in the world of building products that end-users will enjoy while keep the other foot in the world of research, where I investigate new ways of solving problems.