Dakai Zhu, Ph.D.

Kay and Steve Robbins Faculty Teaching Fellowship Award in Computer Science

Assistant Chair and Professor, Computer Science

Dakai Zhu’s research is in the general area of systems with a focus on resources management, performance optimization, system modeling and algorithm design for timing-constrained systems and applications. In particular, his work includes real-time embedded systems, cloud systems, operating systems, parallel and distributed systems, power-aware computing and fault tolerance.

Zhu is a leader is his field, with over 4,800 citations to date and an h-index of 35. He has co-authored two book chapters and over 40 refereed articles in academic journals such as IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Journal of Systems Architecture, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.  

His extensive research has been funded by organizations like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Texas Health Science Center. He is also a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (2010).

Zhu is a long-standing UTSA faculty member, first joining the university in 2005. In addition to his current position as assistant department chair, he also serves as graduate advisor of record for the computer science department. 

Zhu earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.