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I am a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan. I received my B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degree all from University of California at Berkeley. I am a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Fellowship, and the IBM Faculty Partnership Award. I have been named the Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professor.

Contact information:: Z. Morley Mao; 2260 Hayward Street; 4629 Computer Science Division; Department of EECS; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121; phone: +1 734 763 5407 (voice mail rarely checked, email for faster reply).; Fax: +1 734 763 8094; E-mail:zmao AT umich.edu

[Research | Teaching | Publications | CV(PDF)]

Our Mobisys 2015 paper on "Accelerating Mobile Applications through Flip-Flop Replication" won the best paper award!

We are the winners of the FCC Open Internet App Challenge in the categories of "Open Internet App Award" and "People’s Choice App".

Note: (Network is too slow on your phones?) Please try out an application for measuring your 3G/4G LTE network performance and policies on your smartphones (WM, GPhone, iPhone).

Students: (For Fall 2016): I am looking for strong students who are interested in pursuing graduate degrees (M.S. or Ph.D.)(not internships) in software systems, computer networking, and mobile computing, in particular network security/forensics, mobile systems, software defined networking (SDN), and cloud computing. (Please contact me at zmao AT umich.edu.)

Teaching

I am teaching EECS589: Advanced Computer Networks this semester.

EECS388: Computer Security [W2015]
EECS 591: Distributed Systems [F2013]
EECS280: Programming and Data Structures [W08][W09]
CS489: Computer Networks [W09],[W07],[F05],[F04]
CS589: Advanced Computer Networks [F07],[F06],[W06],[W05],[F08],[F09],[F10].
CS598-4: Advanced Topics in Computer Networks [W04]

Research

My research interests encompass network systems, mobile and distributed systems, and network/systems security. My work involves both empirical data collection and analysis, as well as the design and implementation of new systems. Here are some of my ongoing projects:

Mobile computing, networking issues in data cellular networks, applications on smartphones (3gtest, MobiPerf, PowerTutor [news coverage on IEEE Spectrum] ).
Mobile cloud computing, data center networking.
Network management for enterprise and ISP networks.
Android security, side channels, malware characterization and deterrence.

Here is my group Web page.
Please visit the MobiLab project page for mobile computing research, including the MobiPerf and the Mobilyzer project.
Please visit Side channels, TCP attack and Whisper for security projects.
Please visit COMET for mobile systems research.

Publications

My Ph.D thesis "Solving the Interdomain Routing Puzzle -- Understanding Interdomain Routing Dynamics" is available here: [ps.gz, pdf.gz].
My papers are available here.

bighead@eecs.umich.edu