Michael Zink

Adjunct Professor Michael Zink works in the fields of sensor and distribution networks for high bandwidth data. Further research interests are in wide-area multimedia distribution for wired and wireless environments and network protocols. He is one of the developers of the KOMSSYS streaming platform.

Zink is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst, working with the Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory. He is an adjunct assistant professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS). Previously, he was an assistant research professor in the CS department.

Zink is a member of IEEE and ACM. He received the Best Paper Award at Multimedia Computing and Networking in 2008.