Rong Zheng

Overview

Rong Zheng is a professor in the Department of Computing and Software and a member of the School of Biomedical Engineering in McMaster University. She was previously a visiting research scientist ​in the Microsoft Research, Sensing and Energy Research Group.

Rong Zheng’s research interests include mobile computing, data analytics and networked systems. She holds the Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Mobile Computing. She was recognized as having an established, superior research program that is highly rated in terms of originality and innovation, and was awarded the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement in 2019. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006, and was a Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow from 2015 – 2018. Zheng is currently an editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile computing. She has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Her work promotes collaboration among institutions and researchers ​using different types of data. Rong’s work has the potential to produce tools with applications to mobility for older populations.

Affiliations

• Professor
• Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University
• Member, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), McMaster University
• Professor, Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering
• Associate Member, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
• Associate Member, School of Biomedical Engineering
• Member, McMaster Institute for Energy Studies (MIES), Faculty of Engineering

Education

• BSc (Electrical Engineering), Tsinghua University, P.R. China
• MSc (Electrical Engineering), Tsinghua University, P.R. China
• PhD (Computer Science), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Additional Links

• http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~rzheng/