BIOGRAPHY

Lizhong Zheng received the B.S and M.S. degrees, in 1994 and 1997 respectively, from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, , and the Ph.D. degree, in 2002, from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. Since 2002, he has been working in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently the KDD associate professor. His research interests include information theory, wireless communications and wireless networks. He received Eli Jury award from UC Berkeley in 2002, IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2003, and NSF CAREER award in 2004.