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”ฅ News

  • 2026.02: ย ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ Paper: OSCAR is accepted by NSDI 2026.

๐Ÿ“ Selected Publications

Only papers where I served as a lead author are listed here. See the full publication list for all papers.

  NSDI'26   OSCAR: O(1)-Step Convergence And Readily-deployable Congestion Control.

๐Ÿ‘ค Zhaochen Zhang, Feiyang Xue, Rui Ning, Keqiang He, Gianni Antichi, Jiaqi Gao, Zhimeng Yin, Kexin Liu, Rui Li, Zhengqi Cui, Zhehao Lin, Peirui Cao, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian

  ToN'26   Revisiting Flow Control in Node-Centric Datacenter Networks.

๐Ÿ‘ค Peirui Cao, Rui Ning, Guangyu Zhao, Zhaochen Zhang (corresponding author), Chang Liu, Yunzhuo Liu, Rui Li, Chengyuan Huang, Tao Sun, Zhiqiang Li, Guihai Chen, Baochun Li, Chen Tian

  TON   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

  NSDI'25   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

  EuroSys'25     Best Student Paper!   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

  ICS'25   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

  TPDS   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

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.