Bio

I am a Ph.D. student in College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. My advisor is Alan Mislove and my former mentor is Timothy Bickmore. I received my BS degree in Computer Science and Technology from South China Agricultural University where I was advised by Prof. Hongzhi Song. My current interested research areas are distributed systems, social computing and Human Computer Interaction (HCI).

Updates

• 10/15/10 Try my Forward Kinematics and Inverse Kinematics demo.
  
• 09/10/10 Our WebCloud system for serving Facebook content using web clients is available.
  
• 12/14/09 Feel boring in hospital waiting room? We would like to introduce you WRAP.
  

Projects

• WebCloud: WebCloud is a content distribution system that enables more direct content sharing between users in existing online social networks by taking advantage of modern Web browser features. WebCloud works by adding a small amount of Javascript to a social network's web pages, locally storing content that each user views. When another user browses to content, the Javascript fetches it from one of the user's online friends, instead of directly from the social networking site. The result is a more direct exchange of content between users; essentially, WebCloud leverages the storage and bandwidth resources of social networking users to help serve content.

• Relational Agent: A relational agent is an embodied conversational agent that displays a human character on the screen to build and maintain long-term, social-emotional relationships with people. In this project, I focus on creating the software program that provides the essential functionalities to support different research projects.
• LensList: Lists are simple and useful graphical user interface (GUI) component for organizing linearly structured information, and work best when they contain only a few elements. However, long lists are difficult to use because only a small part of the list is shown at any time; to gain an overview or select elements from a long list, the user usually needs to scroll the list many times. To address this concern, we applied the focus and context technique (also known as the fisheye effect) to the view of a list.

Publications

• CloudCDN: Democratizing content distribution on the web
  Fangfei Zhou, Liang Zhang, Richard Revis, Alan Mislove and Ravi Sundaram
  Under submission to USENIX ATC 2012.
  

• WebCloud: Enabling more direct content exchange between web clients
  Fangfei Zhou, Liang Zhang, Richard Revis, Alan Mislove and Ravi Sundaram
  Under submission to WebApps 2012.
  

• LensList: Browsing and Navigating Long Linear Information Structures
  Hongzhi Song, Yu Qi, Yun Liang, Hongxing Peng and Liang Zhang
  In Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Human interface, Beijing, P.R. China, July 2007.
  [PDF]
  

Courses

• 11F - CS7400 - Principles of Programming Languages
  
• 11F - CS7800 - Advanced Algorithms
  
• 11S - CS7780 - Topics in Network: Complex Networks & Applications
  
• 10F - CS8982 - Readings - WebCloud
  
• 10F - CS7380 - Special Topics in Graphics, Applied Geometric Representation and Computation
  
• 10S - CS7780 - Topics in Networks: Social Networks
  
• 10S - CS7600 - Intensive Computer Systems
  
• 10S - CS5800 - Algorithms
  
• 09F - CS5340 - Human-Computer Interaction
  
• 09F - CS5010 - Program Design Paradigms
  

Vita