New this fall to ECN, Yanrong Zhao has the challenging and interesting role of providing programming support for ECN and roughly two thousand window workstations. Before coming to Purdue's Engineering Computer Network for the unique work experience and friendly atmosphere he was a member of the Physical Facilities Computing Services team.

Yanrong Zhao is married with one son and spends much of his free time reading technical papers for his field of work, watching movies and hiking.