About

I am a PostDoc at UC Berkeley advised by Ion Stoica. I have equal interests in core systems and ML systems research, including efficient machine learning, datacenter far memory, distributed transactions and consensus, and networking stack designs.

I will be joining UC Davis CS as an Assistant Professor, starting July 2025.

I have multiple PhD openings for the Fall 2024 cycle at UC Davis (apply here). Feel free to drop me an email if you are interested.

• UC Davis is ranked 28th in Best National University and 36th in Best Computer Science Schools by US News.
• UC Davis has a great location: 20min drive from Sacramento (capital of California) and 1.5h from Silicon Valley (Google, Meta, Amazon).
• Perhaps more importantly, it is a 50min drive from the famous Napa Valley (wine) and 2h from the great Lake Tahoe (skiing and more!).

I finished my PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University in 2024, advised by Minlan Yu and James Mickens. I received my B.S. in Computer Science at Peking University in 2018, advised by Tong Yang on probabilistic data structures and streaming algorithms. I was supported by a Google PhD Fellowship in Systems and Networking (see my application materials).

Students mentored

• Matt Kiley (2023), Harvard College undergrad
• Yunxi Shen (2023-), Tsinghua University undergrad → Cornell PhD
• Xingyu Xiang (2023-), Peking University undergrad → Harvard PhD
• Zezhou Wang (2022), Peking University undergrad → University of Washington PhD

Publications

Conference

• SmartNIC Security Isolation in the Cloud with S-NIC
  Yang Zhou, Mark Wilkening, James Mickens, and Minlan Yu.
  EuroSys 2024. European Conference on Computer Systems.
  [paper] [slides] [code]

• DINT: Fast In-Kernel Distributed Transactions with eBPF
  Yang Zhou*, Xingyu Xiang*, Matthew Kiley, Sowmya Dharanipragada, and Minlan Yu.
  NSDI 2024. USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
  [paper] [slides] [talk] [code]

• Electrode: Accelerating Distributed Protocols with eBPF
  Yang Zhou*, Zezhou Wang*, Sowmya Dharanipragada, and Minlan Yu.
  NSDI 2023. USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
  [paper] [slides] [talk] [code]

• Carbink: Fault-Tolerant Far Memory
  Yang Zhou, Hassan Wassel, Sihang Liu, Jiaqi Gao, James Mickens, Minlan Yu, Chris Kennelly, Paul Turner, David Culler, Hank Levy, and Amin Vahdat.
  OSDI 2022. USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation.
  [paper] [slides] [talk]

• Evolvable Network Telemetry at Facebook
  Yang Zhou, Ying Zhang, Minlan Yu, Guangyu Wang, Dexter Cao, Eric Sung and Starsky Wong.
  NSDI 2022. USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
  [paper] [slides] [talk]

• Cold Filter: A Meta-Framework for Faster and More Accurate Stream Processing.
  Yang Zhou, Tong Yang, Jie Jiang, Bin Cui, Minlan Yu, Xiaoming Li, and Steve Uhlig.
  SIGMOD 2018. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data.
  [paper] [slides] [Code]

• Elastic Sketch: Adaptive and Fast Network-wide Measurements.
  Tong Yang, Jie Jiang, Peng Liu, Qun Huang, Junzhi Gong, Yang Zhou, Rui Miao, Xiaoming Li, and Steve Uhlig.
  SIGCOMM 2018. ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on Data Communications.
  [paper] [slides] [talk] [Code]

• A Comparison of Performance and Accuracy of Measurement Algorithms in Software.
  Omid Alipourfard, Masoud Moshref, Yang Zhou, Tong Yang, and Minlan Yu.
  SOSR 2018. ACM Symposium on SDN Research.
  [paper]

• Single Hash: Use One Hash Function to Build Faster Hash Based Data Structures.
  Xiangyang Gou, Chenxingyu Zhao, Tong Yang, Lei Zou, Yang Zhou, Yibo Yan, Xiaoming Li, and Bin Cui.
  BigComp 2018. IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing.
  [paper]

• Pyramid Sketch: a Sketch Framework for Frequency Estimation of Data Streams.
  Tong Yang, Yang Zhou, Hao Jin, Shigang Chen, and Xiaoming Li.
  VLDB 2017. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases.
  [paper] [Code]

• One Memory Access Sketch: a More Accurate and Faster Sketch for Per-flow Measurement.
  Yang Zhou, Peng Liu, Hao Jin, Tong Yang, Shoujiang Dang, and Xiaoming Li.
  Globecom 2017. IEEE Global Communications Conference.
  [paper] [Code]

• ABC: a Practicable Sketch Framework for Non-uniform Multisets.
  Junzhi Gong, Tong Yang, Yang Zhou, Dongsheng Yang, Shigang Chen, Bin Cui, and Xiaoming Li.
  BigData 2017. IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
  [paper]

Workshop and Demo

• Accurate Per-Flow Measurement with Bloom Sketch.
  Yang Zhou, Hao Jin, Peng Liu, Haowei Zhang, Tong Yang, and Xiaoming Li.
  INFOCOM 2018 Workshops. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications.
  [paper] [Code]

Journal

• On the Evolutionary of Bloom Filter False Positives - An Information Theoretical Approach to Optimizing Bloom Filter Parameters
  Zhuochen Fan, Gang Wen, Zhipeng Huang, Yang Zhou, Qiaobin Fu, Tong Yang, Alex X. Liu, and Bin Cui.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2022.
  [paper] [Code]

• Pyramid Family: Generic Frameworks for Accurate and Fast Flow Size Measurement
  Yuanpeng Li, Xiang Yu, Yilong Yang, Yang Zhou, Tong Yang, Zhuo Ma, and Shigang Chen.
  IEEE/ACM Trasactions on Networking (TON) 2021.
  [paper] [Code]

• Adaptive Measurements using One Elastic Sketch.
  Tong Yang, Jie Jiang, Peng Liu, Qun Huang, Junzhi Gong, Yang Zhou, Rui Miao, Xiaoming Li, and Steve Uhlig.
  IEEE/ACM Trasactions on Networking (TON) 2019.
  [paper] [Code]

• Fast and Accurate Stream Processing by Filtering the Cold.
  Tong Yang, Jie Jiang, Yang Zhou, Long He, Jinyang Li, Bin Cui, Steve Uhlig, and Xiaoming Li.
  VLDB Journal 2019.
  [paper] [Code]

• Accelerating Network Measurement in Software.
  Yang Zhou, Omid Alipourfard, Minlan Yu, and Tong Yang.
  SIGCOMM CCR 2018 July issue, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review.
  [paper] [Code]

*: co-primary authors

Service

• Organizer:
  • Co-Chair for SIGCOMM Artifact Evaluation 2024
• Program Committee:
  • OSDI 2025
  • SIGCOMM Poster/Demo 2023, 2024
  • SIGCOMM Workshop on eBPF and Kernel Extensions 2024

Miscellaneous

• I do skiing and traveling, see my photos from:
  • Japan
  • China
  • White Mountains
  • Ecuador
  • Zion
  • Acadia
  • Salem
  • Puerto Rico
  • Mount Rainier
  • Olympic National Park
  • Great Smoky Mountains
  • Bryce Canyon
  • Capitol Reef
  • Utah 12
  • Death Valley
  • Crater Lake
  • Rocky Mountain
  • Mount Evans
  • Mount Baker
  • Lake Tahoe
  • Yosemite
  • Point Reyes
  • Grand Teton
  • Yellowstone
  • Everglades National Park
  • Key West
• I did long-distance biking
  • I cycled 700 miles around Taiwan in ten days, see my photos.
• I did long-distance running
  • I finished a half-marathon in 1h50min.
• I did physics.

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