Assistant Professor

Institute of Information and Communication Technology

Research Interests: Network theory, Networked intelligence

Email: zhangjianan[at]pku.edu.cn

Personal Website: https://jianan-z.github.io/

Zhang, Jianan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronics at Peking University. He was a senior software engineer at Google during 2018-2023. Dr. Zhang obtained his B.E. degree from the Electronic Engineering Department at Tsinghua University in 2012, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2014 and 2018, respectively.

Dr. Zhang's research areas are in network theory and networed intelligence, with focus on resource allocations, cross-system optimizations, and robust network designs. His research has applications to cyber physical systems (such as smart transportation, smart grid and other interdependent networks), and data center networks. Currently he is working on integrated sensing, communication and computation networks and multi-agent systems. His work builds on foundations in network optimization, stochastic control and graph theory.

Join Us: We are recruiting graduate and undergraduate research assistants and postdocs. Canditates with soild mathematical backgrounds and interested in probability, machine learning, optimization and control are welcome to apply.

Selected Publications:

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4U5JCJgAAAAJ

[1] J. Zhang, A. Sinha, J. Llorca, A. Tulino, and E. Modiano. "Optimal control of distributed computing networks with mixed-cast traffic flows," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1760-1773, 2021.

[2] J. Zhang and E. Modiano, "Connectivity in interdependent networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 2090-2103. Oct. 2018.

[3] J. Zhang, E. Modiano, and D. Hay, "Enhancing network robustness via shielding," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 2209-2222, Aug. 2017.

[4] L. Poutievski, et al., "Jupiter evolving:transforming Google's datacenter network via optical circuit switches and software-defined networking," inProc. ACM SIGCOMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022.

[5] J.Zhang and E. Modiano,  "Robust routing in interdependent networks," IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, USA, 2017.