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Lin Zhong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Rice University, Houston, TX
Contact
6100 Main St. MS-380
Houston, TX 77005
lzhong AT rice DOT edu
Office: 3046 Duncan Hall
Phone: 713-348-4163
Fax: 713-348-6196

I received my B.S and M.S. from Tsinghua University in 1998 and 2000, respectively. I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University in September 2005. My PhD advisor was Prof. Niraj K. Jha. I was with NEC Labs, America, for the summer of 2003 and with Microsoft Research for the summers of 2004 and 2005.  I joined the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University as an assistant professor in September 2005. At Rice, I lead the Efficient Computing Group to make computing, communication, and interfacing more efficient and effective. Please visit Efficient Computing Group homepage for more information regarding my research. I received the AT&T Asian Pacific Leadership award in 2000 and the Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship from Princeton University for the last year of my doctoral study. My students and I received the best paper awards from ACM MobileHCI 2007 and IEEE PerCom 2009.

My research interests include

  • Mobile & embedded system design
  • Power analysis & optimization of IC & systems
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Nanoelectronics

Selected Publications (Full list)

  • Xiaoming Chen, Zhendong Zhao, Ahmad Rahmati, Ye Wang, and Lin Zhong, "Sensor-assisted motion estimation for efficient H.264/AVC video encoding," in Proc. ACM Multimedia, October 2009. (PDF)
  • Mian Dong, Kevin Choi, and Lin Zhong, "Power modeling of graphical user interfaces on OLED displays," in Proc. ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf. (DAC), July 2009. (PDF) (related demo received the Best Demo/Poster Award from ACM HotMobile'10)
  • Yunxin Liu, Ahmad Rahmati, Yuanhe Huang, Hyukjae Jang, Lin Zhong, Yongguang Zhang, and Shensheng Zhang, "xShare: supporting impromptu sharing of mobile phones," in Proc. ACM/USENIX Int. Conf. Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2009. (PDF)
  • Jiayang Liu, Zhen Wang, Lin Zhong, Jehan Wickramasuriya, and Venu Vasudevan, "uWave: Accelerometer-based personalized gesture recognition and its applications," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom), March 2009. (PDF) (Video Demo in WMV) (source code and library data) (received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award)
  • Jiayang Liu and Lin Zhong, "Micro power management of active 802.11 interfaces," in Proc. ACM/USENIX Int. Conf. Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2008. (PDF)
  • Ahmad Rahmati, Angela Qian, and Lin Zhong, "Understanding human-battery interaction on mobile phones," in Proc. ACM Int. Conf. Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), September 2007. (PDF) (received Best Paper Award)
  • Ahmad Rahmati and Lin Zhong, "Context for Wireless: Context-sensitive energy-efficient wireless data transfer,"  in Proc. ACM/USENIX Int. Conf. Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2007. (PDF) (Traces and logger source code)
  • Lin Zhong and Niraj K. Jha, "Dynamic power optimization targeting user delays in interactive systems," in IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, November 2006. (PDF)
  • Lin Zhong and Niraj K. Jha, "Energy efficiency of handheld computer interfaces: Limits, characterization, and practice," in Proc. USENIX/ACM Int. Conf. Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June, 2005. (PDF)

 


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