Shorter Version: ================ Zhi-Li Zhang received Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Massachusetts. He joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1997, where he is currently the McKnight Distinguished University Professor and Qwest Chair Professor in Telecommunications. He currently also serves as the Associate Director for Research at the Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota. Prof. Zhang's research interests lie broadly in computer and communication networks, Internet technology, multimedia systems and content distribution networks, cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-Things, and (applied) machine learning and data mining. Prof. Zhang has published more than 100 journal and conference/workshop papers, many of them in top venues in networking and related fields. He is co-recipient of several Best Papers awards including IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP and ACM SIGMETRI.CS Prof. Zhang has chaired the program committees of several major conferences in networking including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE ICNP and ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), and served on the Editorial Board of several journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM TOMPECS, and PACM MACS. He is a Fellow of IEEE. Longer Version: ============== Zhi-Li Zhang received the B.S. degree in computer science from Nanjing University, China and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Massachusetts. He joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1997, where he is currently the Qwest Chair Professor in Telecommunications and Distinguished McKnight University Professor. He currently also serves as the Associate Director for Research at the Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota. Prof. Zhang's research interests lie broadly in in computer and communication networks, Internet technology, multimedia systems and content distribution networks, cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-Things, and (applied) machine learning and data mining. His past research was centered on the analysis, design and development of scalable Internet quality-of-service (QoS) solutions to support performance-demanding multimedia applications. His current research thrusts focus primarily on i) building highly scalable, resilient and secure Internet infrastructure and mechanisms to enhance Internet service availability, reliability, mobility, manageability and security; ii) developing next-generation, service-oriented, manageable and economically viable Internet architectures to provide better support for creation, deployment, operations and management of value-added Internet and cloud services and underlying networks; and iii) developing and incorporating novel machine learning, big data analytics and AI techniques to enable intelligent software-defined infrastructures, edge/cloud networking systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Prof. Zhang has published more than 100 journal and conference/workshop papers, many of them in top venues in networking and related fields, and has graduated more than 25 Ph.D students who now work in academia and industry. Prof. Zhang is co-recipient of an ACM SIGMETRICS best paper award, an IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) best paper award, an IEEE INFOCOM best paper award, a RAID best paper award, a SIMPLEX best paper award and ACM APNET best paper award. He has served on the Editorial Boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), Proceedings of ACM on Series on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (PACM MACS), Computer Networks, Computational Social Networks, Journal of Computer Science and Technology. Prof. Zhang was Technical Program Co-chair of ACM SigmetricsÕ17, IEEE INFOCOMÕ06, ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMCÕ08), IEEE ICNPÕ13, and has served on the Technical Program Committees of various conferences and workshops. He received the US NSF CAREER Award in 1997. He has also been awarded the prestigious McKnight Land-Grant/Distinguished University Professorships and George Taylor Distinguished Research Award at the University of Minnesota, and the Miller Visiting Professorship at Miller Institute for Basic Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of IEEE. You can find more information about Prof. Zhang and his publications at http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~zhzhang