Jerry Zhao

Postdoctoral Researcher
International Computer Science Institute
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Jerry works at Google and is the Tech Lead for project MapReduce.

He also taught at San Francisco State University, during Fall 2005 and Spring 2006.

Jerry Zhao was a post-doc researcher working with Professor Scott Shenker in ICSI. Jerry graduated with his Ph.D.(2004) in Computer Science from University of Southern California, co-advised by Professor Ramesh Govindan and Professor Deborah Estrin. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from USC, and his B.S. from Fudan University respectively. His current research focus is in the area of wireless ad hoc sensor networks, especially on the issues associated with the design of scalable, energy-efficient monitoring protocols, and the measurement methodology for sensor networks. He received the Best Student Paper award at the First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys 2003).

Publications

Projects

• Sensor Network Architecture
• Data-centric Storage for Sensornets
• Point-2-point Routing in Sensornets
• Sensor Network Tomography

Professional services

• TPC Member: AdHoc NOW(2005), LOCAN(2005), InterSense(2006), AdHoc Now(2006)
Referee: Various network and system conferences, journals and grants.
• Membership: IEEE Computer Society, ACM

Miscellaneous

An implementation of approximate min-wise independent permutation
BART trip planner for Java compatible mobile phones