Haitao "Heather" Zheng (Chinese: 郑海涛) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer.
She was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for "contributions to dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio networks".
[2] Zheng graduated in 1995 from the Special Class for the Gifted Young of Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, with a B.S.
In 1999, she earned her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, under the supervision of K. J. Ray Liu.
After working at the Bell Labs and Microsoft Research Asia, she joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2005.