Gengrui (Edward) Zhang

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Concordia University, where I lead the Research Group of Distributed Computing and Systems (DISCOS).​

My research is at the core areas of distributed systems and data management, powering interdisciplinary applications across AI intrastrucutre, Blockchain, Cloud computing, and DBMS. (In short the "ABCD"). ​​

Prior to joining Concordia, I received my PhD from the University of Toronto in 2024.​​ My full CV is available here. I have served on the program committees of various international conferences, including DASFAA, ACM Middleware, SYSTOR, IEEE ICDE, ICDCS, and VLDB. I also lead academic collaborations on digital transformation for aircraft manufacturing with Airbus Canada and actively collaborates with both academia and industry.