Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Santa Barbara, California Area
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- Technical Advisory Board at PeerAnt Inc
- Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara
- Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Yale University
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Ben Zhao’s Summary
Professor with extensive research experience in large-scale networks, including peer-to-peer overlays, network security, wide-area storage, distributed algorithms, and wireless networks. Focused on my research at UCSB at the moment, but have done a fair amount of industrial consulting in the past. My thesis was on the Tapestry structured peer-to-peer overlay (DHT).
Ben Zhao’s Specialties:
structured peer-to-peer overlays, distributed hash tables, wireless networking, anonymous routing
Ben Zhao’s Experience
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Technical Advisory Board
PeerAnt Inc
(Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
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Assistant Professor
UC Santa Barbara
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
July 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)
Teach networking and OS classes at undergrad and grad levels. Manage a research group on secure and reliable networking.
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Assistant Professor
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Research industry)
2004 — Present (4 years)
Ben Zhao’s Education
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University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Computer Science, 1997 — 2004
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Yale University
BS, Computer Science, 1993 — 1997
Additional Information
Ben Zhao’s Websites:
Ben Zhao’s Interests:
peer to peer networking, anonymous networks, secure network protocols
Ben Zhao’s Honors:
NSF CAREER Award
MIT Tech Review TR-35 (Top 35 Tech Innovators under Age 35)
ComputerWorld Magazine Top IT Innovators under 40
Ben Zhao’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- new ventures
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