Haitao Zheng


Haitao "Heather" Zheng is Chinese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer. She is the Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. She was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for "contributions to dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio networks".
Zheng graduated in 1995 from the Special Class for the Gifted Young of Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, with a B.S. in electrical engineering. In 1999, she earned her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, under the supervision of K. J. Ray Liu. After working at the Bell Labs and Microsoft, she joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2005. In 2017, she was appointed the Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. She remains an adjunct professor at UCSB.