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Ying Zhang

Dr. Ying Zhang joined PARC in 1999 as a member of research staff. She has been a key technical contributor to government-funded projects on distributed robotics and sensor networks, and she is currently a co-principal investigator for a project developing software of mobile robotic relay networks. Ying's current research interests are robotic sensor networks and mobile entity localization and tracking in GPS-less environments.

Before joining PARC, Ying worked at Xerox Wilson Center for Research and Technology as a technical specialist/project manager. She worked on modeling and controlling the xerographic process and DataGlyph toolkit.

Ying is the information director and an associate editor of the ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks, and has served on technical program committees and NSF review panels on sensor networks. Ying received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of British Columbia. She has published over 50 papers on sensor networks, modular robotics, and hybrid systems.

 

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2008

Error control in distributed node self-localization

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

June 2008

2007

Localizing tags using mobile infrastructure

Location and Context-Awareness Workshop

20 September 2007

Dynamic balancing of push and pull in a distributed traffic information system

IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2007)

12 January 2007

2006

A robust and efficient flooding-based routing for wireless sensor networks

Journal of Interconnection Networks

31 December 2006

Minimal time convergecast scheduling in wireless sensor networks

26th International IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006)

4 July 2006

Robust distributed node localization with error management

7th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2006)

22 May 2006

Constrained flooding: a robust and efficient routing framework for wireless sensor networks

20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006)

18 April 2006

Sequential localization algorithm for active sensor network deployment

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications

18 April 2006

Information-directed routing in sensor networks using real-time reinforcement learning

Combinatorial Optimization in Communication Networks

1 March 2006

Adaptive tree: a learning-based meta-routing strategy for sensor networks

Third IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC06)

9 January 2006

2005

Guest Editorial

International Journal on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

31 December 2005

2004

STAM: a system of tracking and mapping in real environments

IEEE Wireless Communications

1 December 2004

Radial coordination for convergecast in wireless sensor networks

First IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-1) at LCN-2004

5 November 2004

Combs, needles, haystacks: balancing push and pull for discovery in large-scale sensor networks

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 04)

3 November 2004

Localization from connectivity in sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

1 November 2004

Smart routing with learning-based QoS-aware routing strategies

First Workshop on QoS Routing

1 October 2004

Not all ants are born equal: improvements on ant-routing for sensor networks

Fourth International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2004)

5 September 2004

Search-based adaptive routing strategies for sensor networks

AAAI Sensor Network Workshop

26 July 2004

Limbless conforming gaits with modular robots

9th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '04)

16 June 2004

PolyBot and the PolyKinetic(tm) System: A modular robotic platform for education

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04)

26 April 2004

An XML-based scripting language for chain-type modular robotic systems

8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-8)

10 March 2004

Message-initiated constraint-based routing for wireless ad-hoc sensor networks

First IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2004)

5 January 2004

2003

Motion planning with narrow C-space passages

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003)

27 October 2003

Exploring and programming modular reconfigurable robotics (Tutorial)

IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003)

27 October 2003

Phase automata: a programming model of locomotion gaits for scalable chain-type modular robots

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003)

27 October 2003

Scalable and reconfigurable configurations and locomotion gaits for chain-type modular reconfigurable robots

IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation

16 July 2003

Localization from mere connectivity

Fourth International ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing

1 June 2003

2002

Connecting and disconnecting for chain self-reconfiguration with PolyBot

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

1 December 2002

A general constraint-based control framework with examples in modular self-reconfigurable robots

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002)

2 October 2002

Developing efficient cooperative solvers for constrained optimization

CP02 Workshop on Cooperative Solvers in Constraint Programming

8 September 2002

A platform for studying locomotion systems: modular self reconfigurable robots

NIST Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS '02)

13 August 2002

Sensor computations in modular self-reconfigurable robots

International Symposium on Experimental Robotics 2002

8 July 2002

Modular self-reconfigurable robots

Robotics for Future Land Warfare Seminar and Workshop, Defence Science Technology Organisation

24 May 2002

Massively distributed control nets for modular self reconfigurable robots

AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Distributed and Embedded Systems

25 March 2002

Modular robots

IEEE Spectrum

1 February 2002

2001

Modular reconfigurable robotics at PARC (Invited talk)

Titech COE/SMS Workshop

19 November 2001

Closed-chain motion with large mechanical advantage

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

29 October 2001

Software architecture for modular self-reconfigurable robots

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2001)

29 October 2001

Modular reconfigurable robots in space applications (Invited paper)

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2001)

21 May 2001

Distributed control for 3D metamorphosis

Autonomous Robots

31 January 2001

 

 

 

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Facilitating meetings with playful feedback
10 April 2010 - 15 April 2010 | Atlanta, GA  

Problems and challenges in robotic relay networks
14 May 2009 | Mountain View, CA  

 

 

 

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