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ZIRAN ZHANG

98 Freedom ln • Mountain View, CA 94040
zhangziran@berkeley.edu • (626) 297-0631
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY (May 2013 –December 2016)
PHD. STUDENT IN CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY (August 2009 –May 2013)
B.S. AND M.S. IN CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
DOCTORAL RESEARCH
Advisor: Steven Glaser
• Develop and deployed world largest and smartest (WSN) for hydrologic monitoring at high-elevation mountain;
• Evaluated and continuously improved the performance of the network deployed;
• Use machine learning algorithms to estimate network connection strength to guarantee network performance;
• Building application models using real-time data for water resource forecasts;
WORK EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Researcher (January 2018 to Current)
At INRIA-Pairs, lead and conducted the SmartMarina project in Southern France to develop business-ready smart infrastructure products.
Partner of Metronome systems (January 2017 to Current)
Collaborate with hardware and software engineers and contractors to conduct R&D projects in the startup company.
Graduate Student Researcher (August 2012 to December 2016)
Leader and Supervisor of research activities involving student interns. Managing and conducting field work in the wilderness to install wireless sensor network. Collaborating with researchers and staff from other universities.
Engineering Aid (March 2012 to August 2012)
Performing critical hardware design for a research project under Professor Steven Glaser. Collaborating with other students and interns to develop new data acquisition platform for sensors on the wireless network.
Intern Engineering Designer (May 2011 to March 2012)
Working as a student intern designer at San Francisco Public Utility Commissions handling customer request of redesigning city owned infrastructures. Respond to citizen’s calls for emergency due to city infrastructure malfunctioning. Assigning work orders to city field crew to work on a daily basis. Helped supervisors conducted a cost analysis on some infrastructure acquisitions proposal.
Student Intern Researcher (June 2009 to August 2009)
Collaborate with student groups of different functions to improve the performance of earthquake science software SCEC-VDO. My task is to create 3D visualizations of historical earthquake events.
Sample of my work: <http://scec.usc.edu/internships/useit/scec-vdo/animation810>
PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED JOURNALS
Zhang, Z., Glaser, S., Bales, R., Conklin, M., Rice, R., & Marks, D. (2017). Insights into mountain precipitation and snowpack from a basin‐scale wireless‐sensor network. Water Resources Research. DOI: 10.1002/2016WR018825
Zhang, Z., Glaser, S.D., Bales, R.C., Conklin, M.H., Rice, R.R., and Marks, D.G., (2017), Technical Report: the
Design and Evaluation of a Basin-Scale Wireless Sensor Network for Mountain Hydrology, Water Resources
Research, 53(5), 4487–4498.
Zhang, Z., Glaser, S.D., Wattenye, T., and Malek, S., (2016), American River Hydrological Observatory:
Monitoring the Sierra Nevada Snowpack, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, special issue on Large-scale Internet
of Things: Theory and Practice, in press.
Oroza, C.A., Zhang, Z., Watteyne, T., and Glaser, S.D., (2017), A Machine-Learning Based Connectivity
Model for Complex Terrain Large-Scale Low-Power Wireless Deployments, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive
Communications and Networking, DOI: 10.1109/TCCN.2017.2741468.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT AND PRESENTATIONS
Development and technical evaluation of a basin-scale water-balance instrument cluster for hydrologic,
atmospheric and ecosystem science. Ziran Zhang, Steven D Glaser, Roger C Bales, Martha H Conklin,
Robert Rice (2014): Mountain Observatories, July 2014. Abstract SES-166 (Presentation)
Design, implementation and hydrologic evaluation of a snow-measurement network using wireless sensors in
the American River basin of California Robert Rice, Roger Bales, Ziran Zhang, Martha Conklin, Steven
Glaser.(2014): Mountain Observatories, July 2014. Abstract SES-193
Developing a robust wireless sensor network structure for environmental sensing. Ziran Zhang, Carlos Oroza,
Steven D Glaser, Roger C Bales, Martha H Conklin (2013): American Geophysical Union, December
2013. Abstract 1813457.
Connecting the snowpack to the internet of things: an IPv6 architecture for providing real-time measurements
of hydrologic systems (Invited). Kerkez, B., Zhang, Z., Oroza, C., Glaser, S.D., and Bales, R.C. (2012): Fall
meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract C32B-07.
TECHNICAL DEMOS
Internet of Water for Improved Real-time Hydrologic Snowpack Monitoring and Forecasting, Ziran Zhang,
Sami Malek, Steven D. Glaser, Roger R.C. Bales, Martha Conklin, Citris open house demo day,
October, 2015
Mountain observatories based on wireless sensor networks and low-cost hardware Steven Glaser, Roger Bales,
Martha Conklin, Ziran Zhang, Robert Rice. (2014): Mountain Observatories, July 2014.
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
➢ Honors undergraduate research with professor Mark Stacey, 2011
➢ Member of Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society, 2010
➢ Foote, F.S. Memorial Scholarship, 2009
➢ Margaret Farrer Memorial Scholarship, 2008
➢ Honors Extraordinary in Physics, 2009;Honors in Calculus, 2009; Honors for Superior Achievement in
Economics, 2008
PROFESSIONAL SKILL PROFILE
➢ Proficiency to program with but not limited to C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Java Script, PHP, and MySQL;
➢ Expertise in wireless sensor network technology and its applications;
➢ Skills in engineering drafting (AutoCAD or SOLIDWORKS) and read engineering drawings; certified
SOLIDWORKS Associates;
➢ EIT certified
LINKS TO CURRENT PROJECT
https://smartmarina.org
https://github.com/realms-team/sol.git
http://glaser.berkeley.edu/wsn/
PRESS ARTICLES
http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/10/20/student-installed-sensors-help-monitor-botanical-garden/
http://citris-uc.org/newsletter/2014/snow
http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/09/15/why-more-trees-in-the-sierra-mean-less-water-for-california/
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Smart-sensors-can-measure-pretty-much-anything-4724389.php