Zhizhen Zhong
Postdoc Researcher
Email:
zhizhenz [at] mit (dot) edu
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I am a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL with Prof. Manya Ghobadi. I study in the
intersection of networked systems and photonics/optoelectronics to build the next-generation reconfigurable computer networks and high-performance networked computing
infrastructures.
Before joining MIT, I was a visiting researcher at Facebook with Dr. Ying Zhang. I received my Ph.D.
in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua
University in July 2019. My Ph.D. thesis is on "Traffic-Driven Self-Adaptive Optical
Networking" that designs reconfigurable optical networks to optimize network application performance. I was a
visiting Ph.D student at the University of California
Davis, advised by Prof. Biswanath
Mukherjee and Prof. Massimo
Tornatore. I received my
Bachelor's Degree of Engineering and secondary Bachelor's Degree of Economics from Tsinghua University in
2014 and 2016, respectively.
My awards include the Best Paper Award from OECC conference in 2022, Zijing-Scholar Fellowship from Tsinghua University in 2019, the 1st Place Best
Poster Award (1 out of 600+ posters) on IEEE CLEO-PR/OECC/PGC conference from IEEE Photonics Society in
2017, the Tang Lixin Scholarship from Tsinghua University in 2016.
[Science 2022] Delocalized Photonic Deep Learning on the Internet's Edge
MIT News |
Optics & Photonics News |
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[ACM SIGCOMM 2021] ARROW: Restoration-Aware Traffic Engineering
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Lifewire |
21st Century Tech |
Future Tech
[NSDI 2021] Risk-Driven IP-Optical Network Management
Facebook Engineering Blog
[CLEO-PR/OECC 2017] Sub-Wavelength Optical-Circuit-Switched Networks
IEEE Photonics Society News
Leveraging Optical Noise for Fast Fiber Cut Recovery
August 2020, ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Workshop on Optical
Systems Design
(OptSys 2020), online |
Website
The Impact of Social Distancing on Facebook's Optical Backbone
August 2020, ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Workshop on Optical
Systems Design
(OptSys 2020), online |
Website
Traffic-Driven Self-Ddaptive Optical Networking
October 2019, Special Seminar, China Telecom Beijing
Research
Institute, Beijing, China
May 2019, Ph.D. Defense, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Exploiting physical-layer flexibility for demand-responsive networks
March 2019, Special Seminar, Nokia Bell Labs
(Crawford
Hill),
Holmdel, NJ, USA |
Slides
April 2018, Special Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA | Slides
March 2018, Post-OFC Workshop, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA | Website | Slides
Conference
Program Committee, ACM SIGCOMM
2023
Program Committee, USENIX NSDI 2023
Artifact Evaluation Committee, ACM SIGCOMM 2022
External Reviewer, ACM IMC 2022
Program Committee, ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Optical Systems (OptSys 2021)
Artifact Evaluation Committee, ACM SIGCOMM 2021
Program Committee, WCSP 2019
Journals
Reviewer, IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking
Reviewer, IEEE Communications Magazine
Reviewer, Optics Express
Reviewer, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology
Reviewer, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Reviewer, IEEE Access
Reviewer, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (SIGCOMM CCR)
Reviewer, Photonic Network Communications
Reviewer, Optical Switching and Networking
Photography
In my spare time, I enjoy traveling and capturing the frozen time. See some of my photographical publications (peer reviewed) here: 1x
Research interests:
Reconfigurable Computer Networks |
Reconfigurable Photonic Computing
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Selected Talks
May 2019, Ph.D. Defense, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
April 2018, Special Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA | Slides
March 2018, Post-OFC Workshop, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA | Website | Slides
Professional Services
Program Committee, USENIX NSDI 2023
Artifact Evaluation Committee, ACM SIGCOMM 2022
External Reviewer, ACM IMC 2022
Program Committee, ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Optical Systems (OptSys 2021)
Artifact Evaluation Committee, ACM SIGCOMM 2021
Program Committee, WCSP 2019
Reviewer, IEEE Communications Magazine
Reviewer, Optics Express
Reviewer, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology
Reviewer, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Reviewer, IEEE Access
Reviewer, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (SIGCOMM CCR)
Reviewer, Photonic Network Communications
Reviewer, Optical Switching and Networking