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Jian Zhang

PhD student @ Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

I am a second-year PhD student of Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Cheng Tan. I am also privileged to work closely with Shuai Mu. My main research interests are in system verification and distributed systems. I’m particularly interested in:

  • Verifying correctness of distributed systems.
  • Building efficient distributed systems.

News

Selected publications (Full publication list)

  • Viper: a fast snapshot isolation checker (EuroSys 2023) [paper, code]

    Jian Zhang, Ye Ji, Shuai Mu, Cheng Tan

    Media coverage: [Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast]

  • Measuring and improving the use of graph information in graph neural networks (ICLR 2020)

    Yifan Hou, Jian Zhang, James Cheng, Kaili Ma, Richard T. B. Ma, Hongzhi Chen, Ming-Chang Yang

  • A General and Efficient Querying Method for Learning to Hash (SIGMOD 2018)

    Jinfeng Li, Xiao Yan, Jian Zhang, An Xu, James Cheng, Jie Liu, Kelvin KW Ng, and Ti-chung Cheng

Experience

  • Machine Learning System Intern. ByteDance Beijing, MLSys Team.
    Worked on a system about serving deep learning models and achieving the highest utilization of GPUs.
    Jan. 2021 - July. 2021.

Education

  • PhD student @ Northeastern University (Sept. 2021 - )
  • Master @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China HK SAR
  • Bachelor @ Nanjing University, China

Honors and awards

  • 2023 EuroSys 23’ Student Travel Grant
  • 2017 Dean’s List, School of Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • 2016 Chinese National Scholarship (top 2%)
  • 2015 Excellent Student of Software Institute, Nanjing University
  • 2014, 2015, 2017 National Endeavor Scholarship