Zhaochen Zhang

Zhaochen Zhang

Nanjing University


πŸ‘‹ About me

I am Zhaochen Zhang(张兆琛), a forth-year Ph.D. student at NASA Group, State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University.
I am currently under the supervision of Prof. Chen Tian. My research interests lie in the areas of:

  • Congestion management
  • Reliable transmission

πŸ“– Educations

  • 2021.09 - (now), Nanjing University, China. Ph.D.
  • 2017.09 - 2021.06, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Bachelor.

πŸ“ Publications

  • Β  NSDI’25 Β  Pyrrha: Congestion-Root-Based Flow Control to Eliminate Head-of-Line Blocking in Datacenter. πŸ“„ Paper 🌐 Code
    • πŸ‘€ Kexin Liu*, Zhaochen Zhang* (co-first author), Chang Liu, Yizhi Wang, Vamsi Addanki, Stefan Schmid, Qingyue Wang, Wei Chen, Xiaoliang Wang, Jiaqi Zheng, Wenhao Sun, Tao Wu, Ke Meng, Fei Chen, Weiguang Wang, Bingyang Liu, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian
  • Β  EuroSys’25 Β  Β  Best Student Paper! Β  Enabling Virtual Priority in Data Center Congestion Control. πŸ“„ Paper 🌐 Code πŸ“Š Slides
    • πŸ‘€ Zhaochen Zhang, Feiyang Xue, Keqiang He, Zhimeng Yin, Gianni Antichi, Jiaqi Gao, Yizhi Wang, Rui Ning, Haixin Nan, Xu Zhang, Peirui Cao, Xiaoliang Wang, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian
  • Β  ICS’25 Β  PortFC: Designing High-performance Deadlock-free BCube Networks.
    • πŸ‘€ Peirui Cao, Rui Ning, Hongwei Yang, Zhaochen Zhang (corresponding author), Chang Liu, Rui Li, Yongqi Yang, Yunzhuo Liu, Chengyuan Huang, Tao Sun, Xiaodong Duan, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian
  • Β  TPDS Β  Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster Computing. πŸ“„ Paper
    • πŸ‘€ Zhaochen Zhang, Xu Zhang, Zhaoxiang Bao, Liang Wei, Chaohong Tan, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian
  • Β  SIGCOMM’22 Β  Flymon: enabling on-the-fly task reconfiguration for network measurement.
    • πŸ‘€ Hao Zheng, Chen Tian, Tong Yang, Huiping Lin, Chang Liu, Zhaochen Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen

πŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • 2025.4: Best Student Paper Award of EuroSys’25.
  • 2020.12: Awarded National Scholarship for Undergraduate students.

πŸ’» Internships

  • 2024.11 - (now), Alibaba, China.