Paros Professor of Geophysical Sensing Systems
University of Massachusetts Amherst
College of Engineering
Department of Computer in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Address: 151 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003
Email: mzink@umass.edu
Office: Knowles 213 B
Phone: +1-413-545-4465
I'm the Paros Professor of Geophysical Sensing Systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where I serve as the Co-Director of the Paros Center for Atmospheric Research. My research focuses on Multimedia Systems, Cyber Infrastructure, and Large-scale Sensor Networks. I am Co-Director of the graduated NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) and PI of the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC).
I am a Senior Member of IEEE & ACM.
My detailed CV can be found here!
Two papers accepted at eScience 2026:
Zhe Xu, Talha Mehboob, Michael Zink, and Christopher Davis, “FED-CAST: A Federated Training and Evaluation Workflow for Generative Precipitation Nowcasting Across Climate-Diverse Regions”, IEEE eScience 2026 (accepted for publication).
Komal Thareja, Paul Ruth, Berent Aldikacti, and Michael Zink, “AI-Assisted Computational Reproducibility on the FABRIC Testbed”, IEEE eScience 2026 (accepted for publication).
Our paper "Shesha: Opportunistic In-network Acceleration of Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted at ACM CoNEXT 2026.
Our paper "Secure the Stream, Not the Hosts: Attribute-Based Encryption for DRM Enabled Video Streaming" has been accepted at ACM MMSys 2025.