Zhuangzhuang Zhou
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhuangzhuang Zhou is a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia with nine years of experience specializing in machine learning systems and large-scale distributed systems. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Cornell, where his thesis advanced performance optimization and resource management for datacenter systems under Prof. Christina Delimitrou. Before Microsoft he worked on unified data processing engines for AI and multimodal workloads at Huawei’s Distributed & Parallel Software Lab and contributed to performance-focused open-source tooling like the widely used DeathStarBench benchmark suite. His background spans industry research internships at Google and Intel, full-stack engineering at Cisco, and teaching and research roles bridging Cornell and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Practically minded, he has hands-on experience eliminating race conditions and improving determinism in backend services and performance tests. Colleagues would describe him as a systems thinker who pairs rigorous academic research with production-oriented optimizations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (13)
microservices-application10
c-language10
microservices10
cprogramming-language10
performance-testing10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
lua9
python7
sh6
script6
shell6
scripting6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
delimitrou/DeathStarBench
Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
Open-source benchmark suite for cloud microservices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Zhuangzhuang primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the social network's backend services. Their contributions include fixing timestamp issues, refining thread-local generators for improved performance, and enabling upsert operations to mitigate race conditions in the user timeline service. The user also made adjustments to scripts, integrating environment variables to configure workload parameters for the wrk2 performance testing framework. Furthermore, they added deterministic wrk2 scripts, indicating a focus on performance testing and optimization.
benchmark-suitebenchmarkkubernetesmicroservicessuite
zzhou612/abc-playground
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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