Team
Jing Zhu (Founder)
Dr. Jing Zhu is an accomplished wireless network engineer and entrepreneur. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has over 20 years of experience in system design and performance optimization for heterogeneous multi-access/radio networks, including 4G/5G cellular systems, high-density wireless LANs, satellite communications, and mobile ad hoc networks. As a former Principal Engineer at Intel Labs, Dr. Zhu led research initiatives in next-generation multi-access networking and developed open-source software for Network AI Simulation-as-a-Service. His contributions to IEEE, 3GPP, IETF, and ETSI have been instrumental in the integration of heterogeneous wireless networks.
Sumit Roy (Chief Scientist)
Prof. Sumit Roy (Fellow, IEEE 2007) received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) in 1983, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of California (Santa Barbara), all in Electrical & Comp. Engineering (1985 and 1988 respectively), as well as an M. A. in Statistics and Applied Probability (1988). His expertise spans analysis/design and prototyping of wireless communication systems/networks, with an emphasis on various future-looking technologies: next generation wireless LANs, 5G New Radio and beyond 5G/6G standards for terrestrial and airborne applications, multi-standard inter-networking/coexistence and dynamic spectrum access solutions for spectrum sharing. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow by Communications Society for "contributions to multi-user communications theory and cross-layer design of wireless networking standards" and held the ECE-CoE Integrated Systems Term Professorship (2014-19) at Univ. of Washington in recognition of his international reputation in the area.
He directs the Fundamentals of Networking Laboratory (FUNLaB) https://wp.ece.uw.edu/funlab/, and serves as the long-standing maintainer/manager of the Open Source network simulator ns-3 project (www.nsnam.org), recognized via the ACM SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award 2020 for "development of a networking system that has had a significant impact on the world of computer networking".
Menglei Zhang (Lead Software Engineer)
Dr. Menglei Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and has over five years of experience as a senior research scientist at Intel Labs. Menglei specializes in wireless communication, network protocol design, congestion control, and ns-3 simulation. He is proficient in C++, Python, and JavaScript, and has extensive experience in Linux software development, reinforcement learning, and large language models (LLMs). He has been one of the key contributors for the open-source network simulation projects like ns3-mmWave (https://github.com/nyuwireless-unipd/ns3-mmwave).