Yingwu Zhu

Yingwu Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering within Seattle University's College of Science & Engineering. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati and prior degrees from Huazhong University of Science & Technology, his career spans academic research in distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks, and computer security.

• Education:
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Cincinnati
  • M.S., Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
  • B.S., Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Research Interests

Dr. Zhu's work focuses on peer-to-peer computing, with emphasis on:

• Semantic Search over DHT overlays
• Resilient Anonymous Routing using redundancy and erasure coding
• Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems with DHT integration
• Load Balancing in structured P2P networks
• Trust Management via network coding
• Bandwidth-Efficient Algorithms for distributed systems

His research has been published in top venues like IEEE TPDS, JPDC, and HiPC, with acceptance rates as low as 14%. Key themes include scalability, fault tolerance, and proximity-aware networking.

Scientific Recognition

• Best Paper Award, NAS'08
• Top pick, NAS 2006

Academic Service

He actively contributes to the field through program committee memberships at ICCCN, HiPC, IPDPS, and P2P conferences, while maintaining the Distributed Systems Laboratory (DSL) with high-end computational resources.