{"id":28370,"date":"2018-11-20T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?p=28370"},"modified":"2022-06-29T18:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:45:22","slug":"cise-alumni-brings-industry-experience-guidance-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/cise-alumni-brings-industry-experience-guidance-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"CISE Alumni Brings Industry Experience, Guidance to Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment23211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment23211\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_23211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23211\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cise\/files\/2018\/11\/Unknown-1-e1542730887685.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23211 size-full\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CISE Alumni Tiansheng Zhang with students<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p><span><\/span><strong>Tiansheng Zhang<\/strong>\u00a0was the invited speaker at the Fall 2018 CISE Industry Roundtable. Zhang received his PhD degree from Boston University in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2017.\u00a0 He is currently a senior software engineer at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.akamai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akamai Technologies<\/a>, the world\u2019s biggest provider of content delivery network, or CDN, services.<span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/profile\/ayse-kivilcim-coskun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ayse K. Coskun<\/strong><\/a>, CISE faculty and ECE Associate Professor, introduced Zhang to Roundtable student attendees.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Zhang\u2019s mentor at Boston University, Professor Coskun praised Zhang\u2019s reliability and his impact as a mentor to graduate students through technical and social activities. \u201cHe is smart and hardworking,\u201d Coskun said.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Noting him as one of her first students, she added, \u201cTiansheng helped build my lab culture, and the community here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhang spoke about his transition from academia to industry, sharing experiences and insights. During his PhD career, Zhang\u2019s research interests focused on memory system design, silicon-photonic network-on-chip, and system-level thermal\/resource management. Now at Akamai, Zhang is responsible for estimating the real-time network traffic and available network capacity of the servers. He works alongside a team to develop software that monitors Akamai CDN\u2019s status and help makes decisions in capacity planning and future server deployments.<\/p>\n<p>Though Zhang transitioned from chip optimization to networks after he graduated, he told students that he still finds similarities. More specifically, Zhang noted, is \u201chow you approach a problem and how you solve it, [by] using optimization techniques and data analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhang also tied problem-solving skillset to the job search. During his experience interviewing, Zhang said that he found it important to learn from each interview, examine what worked and what didn\u2019t, and prepare for the next one well.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang received his B.S. in microelectronics from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2010. He also worked at Advanced SoC and Integrated System Research Center as an undergraduate for two years. Prior to receiving his PhD degree, Zhang held internships at EPFL in Switzerland, MediaTek Inc. in Woburn, as well as Oracle Corp. in California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CISE Industry Roundtables are a forum to connect CISE students with CISE alumni to facilitate sharing information, insights, and experiences about post-graduation experiences and opportunities in an informal, dynamic atmosphere. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiansheng Zhang\u00a0was the invited speaker at the Fall 2018 CISE Industry Roundtable. Zhang received his PhD degree from Boston University in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2017.\u00a0 He is currently a senior software engineer at\u00a0Akamai Technologies, the world\u2019s biggest provider of content delivery network, or CDN, services. Ayse K. Coskun, CISE faculty and ECE Associate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18605,"featured_media":28571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[245,244],"tags":[160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36760,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28370\/revisions\/36760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}