Zhizhen Zhong
Postdoc Researcher
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zhizhenz [at] mit (dot) edu
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Zhizhen Zhong is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL with Prof. Manya Ghobadi. His research work focuses on 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, he was a visiting researcher at Meta (Facebook) with Dr. Ying Zhang. He received his Ph.D.
in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua
University in July 2019. His Ph.D. thesis is on "Traffic-Driven Self-Adaptive Optical
Networking" that designs reconfigurable optical networks to adapt to spatiotemporal traffic demand dynamics for high throughput and low latency. He was a
visiting Ph.D student at the University of California
Davis, advised by Prof. Biswanath
Mukherjee and Prof. Massimo
Tornatore. He received his
Bachelor's Degree of Engineering and secondary Bachelor's Degree of Economics from Tsinghua University in
2014 and 2016, respectively.
His 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.
[SIGCOMM 2023] Highest-Frequency Photonic-Electronic Computing System for Real-Time AI
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Semiconductor Engineering |
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[Science 2022] Delocalized Photonic Deep Learning on the Internet's Edge
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Optics & Photonics News |
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[ACM SIGCOMM 2021] ARROW: Restoration-Aware Traffic Engineering
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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
I commit 1-2 hours of my spare time every week as my open office hour to meet, advise, mentor and help students/researchers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Computer Systems/Networking and Optics/Photonics community. Please fill out this form if you are interested.
Conference
External Reviewer, NSDI
2024
Artifact Evaluation Committee Co-Chair, ACM SIGCOMM 2023
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, Photonics Research
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 Photoics Journal
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 |
Photonic Computing Systems
Short Bio
Publications ( ⚑ Preprints | ★ Selected | 📋 Full List )
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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
Open Office Hour
Professional Services
Artifact Evaluation Committee Co-Chair, ACM SIGCOMM 2023
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
Reviewer, IEEE Communications Magazine
Reviewer, Optics Express
Reviewer, Photonics Research
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 Photoics Journal
Reviewer, IEEE Access
Reviewer, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (SIGCOMM CCR)
Reviewer, Photonic Network Communications
Reviewer, Optical Switching and Networking
