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Hui Zhang is Conviva’s Chief Scientist, Co-founder, and Chairman of Board. Hui brings 20 years of pioneering research experience to the design and build of the company’s streaming analytics platform. As a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Hui has established himself as one of the world’s leading authorities on Internet Quality of Service (QoS), video streaming, network control, and Internet architecture.

Hui is credited with teaching and mentoring many computer network researchers who are now in industry (Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft) and academia (University of California, Berkeley, Rice, Purdue). Notably, he supervised Ion Stoica’s (Databricks co-founder, Conviva co-founder) 2001 award-winning Ph.D. dissertation on Internet QoS.

He's done pioneer research in video streaming, network control, and real-time QoE analytics at Carnegie Mellon University and Conviva. He is an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards, including the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2022, 2011), the SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award (2022) and the ACM SIGMETRIC Test of Time Award (2012). He was the recipient of the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2000. He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1996 and held the Finmeccanica Chair in Computer Science at CMU from 1998 to 2001. Prior to co-founding Conviva, Hui served as Chief Technology Officer of Turin Networks from 2000 to 2003.

Zhang obtained a PhD in electronic engineering from the University of California in 1999.