Lixia Zhang

By admin , 16 March 2026
Lixia
Zhang
Female
Description

A co-founder of the Internet Engineering Task Force, Lixia Zhang was the Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She designed the Resource Reservation Protocol, coined the term "middlebox", and pioneered the development of named data networking. Her expertise spanned computer networks broadly, with contributions that shaped both the protocols and the vocabulary of the modern internet.

Co-Founded Internet Engineering Task Force
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