Zhiyuan Teo

Bio: Zhiyuan Teo is a 5th year PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, where he specializes in software-defined networking. His thesis investigates techniques of modernizing Ethernet to improve the performance, reliability and security aspects of data networking without requiring change or awareness from network clients.

As a side interest, he has recently become quite active with automotive electronics, microcontrollers and hardware prototyping. Some of the projects he had worked on includes a biometric wireless pen drive, a chocolate 3D printer, an FPGA gesture-controlled iPod music dock and a car computer dashboard replacement. He has passion for C/C++, rapid prototyping, FPGAs, data networking, operating systems design and graphics.