Zhaochen Zhang

Zhaochen Zhang

Nanjing University


๐Ÿ‘‹ About me

I am Zhaochen Zhang(ๅผ ๅ…†็›), a fifth-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

๐Ÿ“– Educations

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

๐Ÿ“ Publications

  • ย  TON ย  Analysis of Pyrrha: Congestion-Root-Based Flow Control Is Most Cost-Effective to Eliminate Head-of-Line Blocking. ๐Ÿ“„ Paper
    • ๐Ÿ‘ค Zhaochen Zhang, Kexin Liu, Peirui Cao, 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, Hao Yin, Fu Xiao
  • ย  NSDIโ€™25 ย  Pyrrha: Congestion-Root-Based Flow Control to Eliminate Head-of-Line Blocking in Datacenter. ๐Ÿ“„ Paper ๐ŸŒ Code
    • ๐Ÿ‘ค 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
  • ย  EuroSysโ€™25 ย  ย  Best Student Paper! ย  Enabling Virtual Priority in Data Center Congestion Control. ๐Ÿ“„ Paper ๐ŸŒ Code ๐Ÿ“Š Slides
    • ๐Ÿ‘ค 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
  • ย  ICSโ€™25 ย  PortFC: Designing High-performance Deadlock-free BCube Networks.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ค 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
  • ย  TPDS ย  Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster Computing. ๐Ÿ“„ Paper
    • ๐Ÿ‘ค Zhaochen Zhang, Xu Zhang, Zhaoxiang Bao, Liang Wei, Chaohong Tan, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian
  • ย  SIGCOMMโ€™22 ย  Flymon: enabling on-the-fly task reconfiguration for network measurement.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ค Hao Zheng, Chen Tian, Tong Yang, Huiping Lin, Chang Liu, Zhaochen Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen

๐ŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • 2025.10: Awarded National Scholarship for Ph.D. students (ๅšๅฃซ็”Ÿๅ›ฝๅฎถๅฅ–ๅญฆ้‡‘)
  • 2025.4: Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (ๆฑŸ่‹็œ็ ”็ฉถ็”Ÿ็ง‘็ ”ไธŽๅฎž่ทตๅˆ›ๆ–ฐ้กน็›ฎ)
  • 2025.4: Best Student Paper Award of EuroSysโ€™25 (EuroSysโ€™25 ๆœ€ไฝณๅญฆ็”Ÿ่ฎบๆ–‡)
  • 2020.12: Awarded National Scholarship for Undergraduate students (ๆœฌ็ง‘็”Ÿๅ›ฝๅฎถๅฅ–ๅญฆ้‡‘)

๐Ÿ’ป Internships

  • 2024.11 - (now), Alibaba, China.