Feng Zhao, Ph.D. Starting March 1st, 2004, I can be reached at Microsoft Research: Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 Tel. 425-706-8777 Email: zhao at microsoft.com My permanent email address is: fz at alum.mit.edu, and Web page: www.fengzhao.com Principal Scientist and Area Manager Embedded Collaborative Computing Area, Systems and Practices Laboratory Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC),  3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304,  USA. Consulting Associate Professor Computer Science Department, Stanford University

My research interests are in the broad, interdisciplinary areas of distributed sensor data analysis, diagnostics, qualitative reasoning, and control of dynamical systems. I have been working on scalable algorithms and generic software tools for analyzing spatio-temporally distributed data, numerical and symbolic computation, automated phase-space analysis and control synthesis, and applications of these techniques to the construction and programming of smart matter systems.

I lead the CoSense (Collaborative Sensemaking in sensor networks) Project and the Smart Matter Diagnostics Project.

• Smart Sensors, Collaborative Sensemaking: Leveraging advances in MEMS sensors and low-power wireless networking to rapidly capture and analyze events in physical environments. Human aware environments, smart roads and factories. [press room] [DARPA CoSense Project] [more...]

• Model-Informed Sensor-Rich Diagnostics and Control: Systemic, scalable approach to combining model-based reasoning with signal processing and signature analysis. Condition-based monitoring and diagnosis of electro-mechanical systems. [DARPA SEC Project][more...]

• Spatial Aggregation:  Algorithms and open-source software tool for analyzing spatio-temporal data. Applications in weather data analysis, diffusion-reaction pattern analysis, distributed control optimization. [more...]