10 Facts About Lixia Zhang

Lixia Zhang is the Jonathan B Postel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Lixia Zhang's expertise is in computer networks; she helped found the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed the Resource Reservation Protocol, coined the term "middlebox", and pioneered the development of named data networking.

Lixia Zhang earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1981 at California State University, Los Angeles, and completed her doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, under the supervision of David D Clark.

Lixia Zhang was one of the 21 participants in the initial meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force, in 1986, the only woman and the only student at the meeting.

Lixia Zhang was a member of the Internet Architecture Board, from 1994 to 1996 and again from 2005 to 2009.

In 1999 Lixia Zhang coined the term "middlebox" to refer to a computer networking device that performs functions other than that of a regular Internet Protocol router.

Lixia Zhang's term has been widely adopted by the industry.

In 2006, Lixia Zhang became a Fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to the architecture and signaling protocols in packet switched networks.

In 2014, Lixia Zhang is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.

Lixia Zhang's picture appeared on the four of diamonds in a pack of playing cards featuring 54 notable women in technology.