Xiaobo Zhou

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO 80933, USA

Dr. Zhou is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is the director of Distributed and Internet Systems Lab, and the director and co-founder of PhD in Engineering with a focus in security degree program. He obtained BS, MS, and PhD degrees in computer science from Nanjing University, in 1994, 1997, and 2000, respectively. He was a visiting scientist in 1999 and a postdoctorate research associate in 2000 at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, University of Paderborn, Germany. From January 2001 to August 2003, he was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit. He joined UCCS in 2003 and received early tenure and promotion in 2009. Dr. Zhou's research was supported in part by National Science Foundation, Army, and Air Force Research Lab. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER AWARD 2009.

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News

Research assistantships are available for PhD students. Background in networking systems and middleware preferred; contact Dr. Zhou for details.

Undergraduate research assisantships are available for junior/senior students. Background in computer networks and operating systems preferred; contact Dr. Zhou for details.

IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Call for Workshop Proposals PDF.

PhD student Sireesha Muppala got an NSF student travel grant to IEEE ICCCN'2009.

Interests

Dr. Zhou's professional goal is to be an outstanding educator and researcher, excellence in scholarship, investigation, and innovation, contributing to the fast-developing computer and information technology. He is committed to high-quality education and research that lead to the discovery, advancement, and application of knowledge. His research interests are primarily in

Scalable Internet Services and Architectures
Autonomic Resource Management in Data Centers
End-to-End Quality-of-Service
Networking Communications

Awards

NSF CAREER, 2009
Outstanding Teacher of the Year 2008, EAS College, UCCS
Research and Creative Work Award, 2007, UCCS
Outstanding Leadership Award, 2007, IEEE ICCCN
Outstanding Researcher of the Year 2005, EAS College, UCCS
Research and Creative Work Award, 2005, UCCS
Outstanding Graduate Student, 1996, Nanjing University

Teaching

Teaching at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

CS 622, Distributed Networks: Spring'04

CS 551, Distributed Systems: Spring'08, Spring'05

CS 522, Computer Communications: Fall'09, Fall'08, Fall'07, Fall'05
CS 450/550, Operating Systems: Fall'06
CS 422, Computer Networks: Summer'09, Fall'08, Fall'08,Spring'06, Summer'05
CS 420/520, Computer Architecture: Spring'09, Spring'08, Spring'07, Fall'06, Spring'06, Fall'05, Spring'05, Fall'04, Spring'04, Fall'03
CS 115, Principles of Computer Science: Fall'09, Fall'07, Summer'07

Previous teaching at Wayne State University

CSC 4100/ECE 4680, Computer Architecture and Design: Win'01
CSC 4100, Computer Architecture and Design: SS'01, Fall'01, Win'02, SS'02, Fall'02, Win'03, SS'03
CSC 3100, Computer Organization and Assembly Language: Fall'01, Win'02, Fall'02
CSC 1050, Introduction to C & Unix: Win'03

Professional Services

Panelist, National Science Foundation

Grant Proposal Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation

Editorial Board: Computer Communiations, Elsevier; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier; Journal of Communications, Academic Publisher
Guest Editor, a special issue of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) on Self-adaptive and Self-Organizing Wireless Networking Systems.
Guest Editor, a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) for Security in Grid and Distributed Systems, Elsevier.
Guest Editor, a special issue of Computer Communications (ComCom) for Wirelss Mesh Networks, Elsevier.
Guest Editor, a special issue of Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA) for Distributed Denial-of-Service and Intrusion Detection, Elsevier.
Program Vice Chair, IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, Dec 2010.
Program Vice Chair, IEEE ICCCN-09, The 18th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, San Francisco, August 2-6, 2009.
Program Vice Chair, IEEE HPCC-08, The 10th IEEE Int'l Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, Sep 25-27, 2008, Dalian, China.
Program Vice Chair, IEEE EUC-08, The 5th IEEE/IFIP Int'l Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, December 17-20, 2008, Shanghai, China.
Program Vice Chair, ATC 2007, the 4th Int'l conference on autonomic and trusted computing (ATC-2007), July 11-13, 2007, Hong Kong.
Program Vice Chair, ICWN 2005 Int'l Conference on Wireless Networks, June 2005, Las Vegas, USA.
Workshops Chair, ICCCN 2007 Workshops, the 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Aug 13-16, 2007, Honolulu, USA.
Workshops Chair, EUC'2006 Workshops, Int'l Conference on Embeded and Ubiquitous Computing, Aug 1-4, 2006, Seoul.
Founding Program Co-Chair, SSN'2005, The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN'05), in conjunction with IEEE/ACM IPDPS, April 2005, Denver, USA.
General Co-Chair, SSN'2006, the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN'06), April 2006, Rhode Island, Greece.
General Co-Chair, SecUbiq-05 The 1st International Workshop on Security in Ubiquitous Computing Systems.
Program Committee member, ICDCS 2008, IPCCC 2008, WoWMoM-2008, AINA-2008, ICC 2007, ICCCN 2007, SAC 2007, UbiSafe-07, AINA'2007, MDC'06 , UIC'06 , ICPP-HPSEC'06, TACS'06 , ICCCN 2005, EUC 2005, MSN 2005, UISW2005, MASS-WSNS'05, ICPP-HPSEC05, ICPADS-SNDS2005, IPDPS-PDSEC2005, ISPA 2005, ICDCS-MDC2005, PMEO-PDS 2005, ISPA 2004, CIT 2004, BIOT 2004
Guest Scientist, System Computing Research Institute
Guest Member, Cluster and Internet Computing Laboratory, Wayne State University
Textbook Reviewer, Modern Processor Design, McGraw Hills Publisher
Textbook Reviewer, Network Design, Pearson Education
Textbook Reviewer, Computer Networks, Pearson Education
Textbook Reviewer, Introduction to Computer Systems and Networks, Pearson Education
Textbook Reviewer, Network Cryptography, Addison Wesley Publisher
Textbook Reviewer, Computer Architecture and Organization, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, MA
Journal Reviewer, ACM Trans. on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), IEEE Trans. on Computers (TC), IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Elsevier/ACM Multimedia Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Computer Communications (ComCom), Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), International Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST)
Member, IEEE Computer Society
Member, IEEE Services Computing Community

Correspondence

	Deprtment of Computer Science 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, PO Box 7150 Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150		Phone: (719) 262 3493(Office)
	Email: zbo@cs.uccs.edu		Fax: (719) 262 3369