Dr. Xiao (Shawn) Zhu xiaoshawnzhu@gmail.com


I work at Google. I earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, advised by Professor Z. Morley Mao. My research is on developing mobile systems and networking support for characterizing and improving emerging Internet applications, with a current focus on optimizing video streaming and playback systems. Before my Ph.D. study, I got a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University, in China, where I was born and raised.

At Google, I tackle real-world challenges in optimizing and personalizing video playback experiences for billions of users across the globe, with innovations in mobile systems and networking, multimedia streaming, machine learning, etc.

 

Selected Publications

(* indicates equal contribution. A full list can be found here or on Google Scholar.)

 

Services

  • Area Chair, 2024 ACM Multimedia Conference (MM)
  • Reviewer, 2024 ACM The Web Conference (WWW)
  • Program Committee, 2024 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
  • Program Committee, 2024 IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
  • Program Committee, 2023 IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
  • Program Committee, 2022 ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN)
  • Reviewer, Journal of Systems Research (JSys)
  • Reviewer, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
  • Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (ToMPECS)
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee, ACM SIGCOMM 2021
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee, USENIX OSDI 2020
  • Shadow Program Committee, 2019 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)