Chaojie Zhang

Chaojie Zhang obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago, with a dissertation on job scheduling in variable capacity data centers for sustainability.

During her Ph.D., she worked in Large-Scale Systems Group with Professor Andrew A. Chien. She has broad research interest in resource management, power management, cloud and green computing.  She received her Bachelor degree from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in Computer Science.

Projects Participated:

• ZCCloud

  • exploring a new approach to computing that leverages recent advances in information technology and the advance of renewable energy generation to create truly "green" computing.

  • Leverage flexible resource management techniques to reduce data center carbon footprint, while increasing data center utilization and maintaining reliability

• River

  • Administrate a shared testbed exploring volatility, power, energy, variability, and reliability.

• Maximizing volatile cloud resources for value

  • Using resource management and information disclosure techniques to increase user value and improve user experience with volatile resources while maintaining cloud provider's flexibility

• Real-time Serverless, (Joint) Enable Serverless to support real-time, bursty cloud and edge applications through service guarantee

  • Characterize and model real-time bursty applications : video analytics

  • Explore resource management techniques to smartly support real-time guarantees

Publications:

• C Zhang, A Kumbhare, I Manousakis, D Zhang, P Misra, R Assis, K Woolcock, N Mahalingam, B Warrier, D Gauthier, L Kunnath, S Solomon, O Morales, M Fontoura, R Bianchini. Flex: High-Availability Datacenters With Zero Reserved Power, ISCA 2021

• Chaojie Zhang and Andrew A Chien. Scheduling Challenges for Variable Capacity Resources, JSSPP 2021

• Chaojie Zhang, Varun Gupta, and Andrew A. Chien, Creating and Preserving Value in Volatile Cloud Resources, IC2E 2019 

• Hai Duc Nguyen, Chaojie Zhang, Zhujun Xiao, and Andrew A. Chien, Real-time Serverless: Enabling Application Performance Guarantees, Best Paper Award, WoSC 2019

• Andrew A. Chien, Fan Yang, and Chaojie Zhang, Characterizing Curtailed and Uneconomic Renewable Power in the Mid-continent Independent System Operator, AIMS Energy, 2018, 6(2): 376-401. doi: 10.3934/energy.2018.2.376.

• Chaojie Zhang, Koichi Shirahata, Shuji Suzuki, Yutaka Akiyama, and Satoshi Matsuoka. Performance Analysis of MapReduce Implementations on High Performance Homology Search, Tokyo, Japan: HPCS 2015

Recent Internship:

• SWE Intern at Google, SysInfra & ATI (2021.6 - 2021.9)

• AI+R Intern at Microsoft Research, System Cloud Efficiency Group  (2020.6 - 2020.9)

Contact Information:

chaojie at uchicago dot edu