Lixia Zhang

Lixia Zhang
张丽霞
Born
China
EducationCalifornia State University, Los Angeles
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forResource Reservation Protocol
Middlebox
Scientific career
FieldsComputer networks
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisorDavid D. Clark

Lixia Zhang (Chinese: 张丽霞) is the Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her 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.