Zili Meng - Bio

Education

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2019 – 2023
Ph.D. Student @ Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace
Advisor: Prof. Mingwei Xu.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2015 – 2019
B.Eng. @ Electronic Engineering; Minor in Management
Advisor: Prof. Jun Bi. Outstanding Graduates (2%).
Northeast Yucai School, Shenyang, China, 2010 – 2015
High School Graduate @ Gifted Education Division

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2022
Research Assistant @ Systems, Networking, and Performance (SNAP) Lab
Advisor: Prof. Justine Sherry.
Alibaba, Beijing, China, Fall 2021
Research Intern @ XG Lab
Mentor: Dr. Chen Sun.
JLSemi, Nanjing, China, Summer 2021
SDE Intern @ Network ASIC Team
Mentor: Mr. Zhaosong Ruan.
Tencent, Shenzhen, China, Summer 2020
Research Intern @ START Cloud Game Team
Mentor: Mr. Rui Han.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Summer 2018
Research Assistant @ Networks and Mobile Systems (NMS) Group
Advisor: Prof. Mohammad Alizadeh.

Teaching Assistant, Networking and the Internet
Carnegie Mellon University (15-441/641), Fall 2022
Instructor: Prof. Justine Sherry

Student Editor, Journal of Systems Research (2021 – 2023)
Conference Program Committee Member
- PAM 2022.
- ACM SMS 2021 (co-located with MobiSys 2021)
Journal Reviewer
- Elsevier Computer Networks (2019 – 2022)
- IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2018, 2019)

For a full list of honors, please refer to my CV.

Microsoft Research Asia PhD Fellowship (2020)
ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Student Research Competition Gold Medal (the 1st Place) (video)
IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021 Best Paper Award
IEEE ICC 2020 Best Paper Award
Tsinghua Top Grade Scholarship (2018)