Lixia Zhang (Chinese: 张丽霞)[1] is the Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[5] Zhang grew up in northern China, where she worked as a tractor driver on a farm when the Cultural Revolution closed the schools.
[6] She earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1981 at California State University, Los Angeles,[6] and completed her doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, under the supervision of David D.
[9] In 1999[2] Zhang coined the term "middlebox" to refer to a computer networking device that performs functions other than that of a regular Internet Protocol router.
[5] In 2006, Zhang became a Fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to the architecture and signaling protocols in packet switched networks.