Zhiyi Zhang

    I am now a research scientist working on privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) at Meta.
    I recevied my Ph.D. degree from Computer Science department at UCLA in 2021. My disssertation title is "Named, Secured Data: A Fundamental Building Block for Secure Networking". My Ph.D. advisor is Prof. Lixia Zhang and my Ph.D. committee is Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, Prof. Songwu Lu, Prof. Peter Reiher, and Prof. Alexander Afanasyev. During my Ph.D. studies, I was a doctoral researcher in the Internet Research Laboratory (IRL). I mainly conduct my research in "/system/security", including security and privacy enhancement in network systems and especially in Named Data Networking (NDN). A full list of my research publication can be found here and some high-level description of my research projects is also available here.
    I received my Bachelor of Engineering degree in Software Engineering department from Nankai University, China, in 2016. While pursuing my bachelor degree, I was an undergraduate student researcher in the Data and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of Nankai University.