Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
Phone: +1 (609) 356-2525
E-mail: peizhang@princeton.edu
WWW: http://www.peizhang.com/
Embedded Systems
Mobile systems (sensor networks, ubiquitous computing)
Software/Hardware techniques for robustness, power-efficiency and reliability.
Ph.D. Princeton University, Princeton NJ
Computer Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Margaret Martonosi
Thesis Title: “Dynamic Management of Sparse Mobile Systems with
Intermittent Connectivity”
Expected graduation date: May 2008
Sep 2004 - Present
M.A. Princeton University, Princeton NJ
Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Margaret Martonosi
Sep 2002 - May 2004
B.S. California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena CA
Electrical Engineering (Graduated with Honors)
Sep 1998 - May 2002
Wu Prize for Excellence, Awarded by the School of Engineering and
Applied Science (SEAS) of Princeton University for upper-year
graduate students who have performed at the highest level of
courses, research and teaching,
2007
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, by the Department of
Electrical Engineering Princeton University,
2005
Co-winner of the Global Photonics Energy Corporation’s (GPEC)
Edith and Martin B. Stein Solar Energy Innovation Award,
2005
Winner 3rd International Low Power Design Contest
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design
(ISLPED)
2003
Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University, Department of
Electrical Engineering
2002 - 2003
Named Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
2000
Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
1999
Pei Zhang, Chris Sadler, Ting Liu, Ilya Fischhoff, Margaret Martonosi, Stephen A. Lyon, Daniel I. Rubenstein. Habitat Monitoring with ZebraNet: Design and Experiences. Chapter in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systems Perspective, N. Bulusu and S. Jha (editors), Artech House, 2005.
Pei Zhang and Margaret Martonosi. "LOCALE: Collaborative Localization Estimation for Sparse Mobile Sensor Networks", The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2008), Apr 2008.
Vincent Lenders, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Pei Zhang and Margaret Martonosi. "Location-based Trust for Mobile User-Generated Contents: Applications, Challenges and Implementations". The 9th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2008), Feb 2008.
Yong Wang and Pei Zhang and Ting Liu and Chris Sadler and Margaret Martonosi. "Movement Data Traces from Princeton ZebraNet Deployments". CRAWDAD Database. http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/. 2007.
Trevor Pering, Pei Zhang, Rohit Chaudhri, Yaw Anokwa and Roy Want. "The PSI Board: Realizing a Phone-Centric Body Sensor Network", 4th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN2007). Mar, 2007.
Pei Zhang, Chris Sadler and Margaret Martonosi. "Middleware for Long-term Deployment of Delay-tolerant Sensor Networks", The First International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens'06). Nov, 2006.
Pei Zhang and Margaret Martonosi. "Energy Adaptation Techniques to Optimize Data Delivery in Store-and-Forward Sensor Networks", The Fourth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Nov, 2006.
Pei Zhang, Christopher M. Sadler, Steve A. Lyon, and Margaret Martonosi. "Hardware Design Experiences in ZebraNet", SenSys 2004. The Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Nov, 2004.
T. Liu, C. Sadler, P. Zhang, and M. Martonosi. “Implementing Software on Resource-Constrained Mobile Sensors: Experiences with Impala and ZebraNet”, Mobisys 2004. The Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. June, 2004.
Pardip Hari, Kevin Ko, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Ulrich Kremer, Margaret Martonosi, Desiree Ottoni, Li Shiuan Peh, Pei Zhang. Sarana: Language, Compiler, and Runtime System Support for Spatially-Aware and Resource-Aware Mobile Computing, under submission.
Princeton University, Department of Electrical
Engineering,
Research Assistant, The ZebraNet and SARANA projects,
Prof. Margaret Martonosi
2002 - Present
ZebraNet
• Designed the ZebraNet hardware, a lightweight,
infrastructure-less, mobile node customized for wildlife tracking.
• Developed a variety of novel hardware/software energy
reduction/scavenging techniques.
• Designed the second generation middleware, with software/protocol
for minimizing power consumption in sparse mobile networks.
• First real-world deployment of sparse mobile sensor network. Two
deployments in central Kenya in Jan 2004 and June 2005.
• Developed a delayed-collaboration that utilizes both hardware and
software for system-wide localization, energy management.
SARANA
• Developed a history based energy policy that actively predicts
energy usage of applications.
• Developed a usage based methodology for device to throttle their
energy usage.
• Investigating the portability issues related with mobile phone
implementation of the SARANA system, to allow for cross platform
collaborations.
Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, India
Summer Intern (with Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan)
Summer 2007
• Design and implementation of distributed operating system (DOS)
for mobile phones, which enable dynamic distributed application
deployment.
• Designed a centralized server to distribute sensor applications,
and decentralized techniques for a central sever to contact the
devices while maintaining user privacy.
• Explored novel collaborative, disruption-tolerant localization
techniques from imperfect mobile phone information.
Intel Inc. Santa Clara, CA
Summer Intern (with Dr. Roy Want)
Summer 2006
• Participate in designing of a phone interface board which added a
number of sensors, enabling novel human-computer interactions.
• Work on the development of driving applications for ubiquitous
computing using our mobile phone attachments.
• Explore and designed peripherals to support near field
communication (NFC) in mobile phones.
Flarion Technologies, Inc.,
Summer Intern (with Frank Lane)
Summer 2005
• Power analysis of the Flarion magnemite ASIC
• Develop power model for baseband and RF chipset
• Formulation of micro-architecture design guidelines for low power
operation
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Research Staff in the Department of Eng. and Applied Science
(Professor Theodore Wu)
Summer 2002
• Design of experiments for validation of mathematical results of
non-linear soliton wave induced long-shore currents.
• Analysis of wave interactions, and induced currents, near inclined
beaches
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering
(Professor Pietro Perona)
Jan 2001 - Jun 2002
• Investigated techniques for inexpensive arsenic detection.
• Design of an inexpensive arsenic-meter for rural water well
testing in Bangladesh.
• Involving inexpensive chemical testing along with high accuracy,
environmental insensitive, optical measurements to produce a simple
to understand indicator.
Boeing Satellite Systems, El Segundo, CA
Summer Intern in the Power Electronics group
Summer 2001
• Design and implemented power supply testing equipments.
• Analysis of tapped inductor switching power supply.
• Analysis of various electronic failure modes specific to zero-G
and high-G environments.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Summer Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering
(Professor Glen George)
Summer 2000
• Designed and implemented digitally controlled buck-boost
(fly-back) power converters.
• Experienced with high speed digital feedback systems.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Summer Researcher in the Department of Eng. and Applied Science
(Professor Theodore Wu) Summer 1999
• Designed and ran wave experiments on long-shore current induced by
obliquely incident waves.
• Used digital particle image velocimetry system, with algorism
developing for image analysis.
• Written programs for image analysis in C to calculate vector
fields.
TESLAco, Irvine, CA
Summer Intern, (Professor Slobodan Ćuk)
Summer 1998
• Constructed customized, high-power power supplies.
• Experience with various switching power supplies including,
bang-bang, buck, boost, fly-back, and Ćuk converters.
• Power supply performance and specification testing.
Head Teaching Assistant, Princeton University
ELE 302 System Design and Analysis (Car Lab)
Spring 2005
Teaching Assistant, Princeton University
ELE 302 System Design and Analysis (Car Lab)
Spring 2004
Head Teaching Assistant, California Institute of
Technology
EE 90 Analog Electronics Laboratory
Spring 2002
Head Teaching Assistant, California Institute of
Technology
EE 105 Application-Specific Computers
Spring 2002
Dean’s Tutor, California Institute of Technology
EE/CS 52 Microprocessor Systems Laboratory.
Spring 2002
Head Teaching Assistant, California Institute of
Technology
EE 91b Experimental Projects in Electronic Circuits.
Winter 2001
Dean’s Tutor, California Institute of Technology
EE/CS 51 Principles of Microprocessor Systems.
Winter 2001
Head Teaching Assistant, California Institute of
Technology
EE 91a Experimental Projects in Electronic Circuits.
Fall 2001
Dean’s Tutor, California Institute of Technology
EE 50 Advanced Digital Design.
Fall 2001
Teaching Assistant, California Institute of
Technology
EE 4 Fundamentals of Digital Systems
Fall 2001
Teaching Assistant, California Institute of
Technology
EE 90 Analog Electronics Laboratory
Spring 2001
Teaching Assistant, California Institute of
Technology
EE 91b Experimental Projects in Electronic Circuits.
Winter 2000
Teaching Assistant, California Institute of
Technology
EE 91a Experimental Projects in Electronic Circuits.
Fall 2000
ACM Student Member
ACSSPU Executive Committee, and News Letter Editor
ACSSPU Vice President (2003-2005)
ACSSPU Social Chair (2002-2003)
Reviewer for: IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, NSDI’06, SenSys’07, MobiSys’07, MidSens2006,
Experienced programming in C, C++, Java, TinyOS, VHDL, Perl, assembly(x86, PIC and Motorola HC11, 5800x, msp430, PAL, Mach, FPGA, TI dspC55)
Languages: English and Chinese(Fluent)
Citizenship: USA
Prof. Margaret Martonosi
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: +1 (609) 258-1912
Prof. Li-Shiuan Peh
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: +1 (609) 258-7747
Prof. Stephen A. Lyon
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: +1 (609) 258-4635
Prof. Bradley W. Dickinson
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: +1 (609) 258-4644
Prof. Venkat Padmanabhan
Microsoft Research India
196/36 2nd Main, Sadashivnagar
Bangalore 560 080, India
Phone: +91 (80) 2361 - 4657