Yanyong Zhang (Chinese: 张燕咏) is a Chinese computer scientist whose interests include the security and privacy of wireless sensor networks, edge computing, and the internet of things.
She went to the Pennsylvania State University for graduate study in computer science and engineering, completing her Ph.D. there in 2002.
[1] Her doctoral dissertation, Scheduling and Resource Management for Next Generation Clusters, was supervised by Anand Sivasubramaniam.
[1][3] Her students at Rutgers included Wenyuan Xu.
[2] Zhang was named as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2018 class of fellows, "for contributions to robust and efficient large-scale sensor networks".