PROFILE:
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
Distributed minimal time convergecast scheduling for small or sparse data sources
IPSN07
3 December 2007
Dynamic information sharing using a distributed traffic surveillance infrastructure
IEEE ITSC07
30 September 2007
Localizing tags using mobile infrastructure
Location and Context-Awareness Workshop
20 September 2007
Balancing push and pull for efficient information discovery in large-scale sensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
29 January 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
A learning-based adaptive routing tree for wireless sensor networks
Journal of Communications
1 January 2006
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
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
Workshop on Embedded System Codesign (ESCODES '02)
24 September 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
2001
Six degree of freedom sensing for docking using IR LED emitters and receivers
Experimental Robotics VII
31 December 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
related focus areas
- Automation & Optimization
- Information & Communication Technologies
events
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Facilitating meetings with playful feedback
10 April 2010 - 15 April 2010 | Atlanta, GA
Controlling error propagation in mobile-infrastructure based localization
30 September 2009 | Orlando, FL
Problems and challenges in robotic relay networks
14 May 2009 | Mountain View, CA
contact
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