Hui Zhang (Chinese: 张晖) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and an entrepreneur who co-founded Conviva.
in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 under Domenico Ferrari with a thesis titled Service Disciplines for Integrated Services Packet-Switching Networks.
[1][2] Zhang, together with Ion Stoica, Aditya Ganjam, and Jibin Zhan, co-founded Conviva, where he is chief scientist and chairman of the board.
[3] Zhang's research focus is in Internet QoE, video streaming, network architecture, and real-time big data analytics.
[7] He co-advised, with Vyas Sekar (a former student of his), Junchen Jiang's PhD thesis, which won the 2017 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award.