Zhiyi Zhang

I am a Research Scientist at Meta, where I work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2021. My dissertation, titled “Named, Secured Data: A Fundamental Building Block for Secure Networking,” was advised by Prof. Lixia Zhang, with committee members Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, Prof. Songwu Lu, Prof. Peter Reiher, and Prof. Alexander Afanasyev. As a Ph.D. student, I was a researcher in the Internet Research Laboratory (IRL). My research focuses on systems security — enhancing security and privacy for networked systems, with an emphasis on Named Data Networking (NDN). A complete list of publications is available here. I earned my B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Nankai University (China) in 2016, where I was an undergraduate researcher in the Data and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory.