Ying Zhang

Tech Leadership & Management: 7+ years of management experiences.

• Support multiple teams of engineering managers, software engineers, production engineers, data scientists.

• Support all software systems for one of the world's largest Wide-area Backbone networks, for Network Planning, SDN Controller and Traffic Engineering, Fiber and Optical Network Management system, and Network Quota management. 

Software Engineering: Over 15 years of software development experience in infrastructure.

• Develop network management systems for production networking, wireless cellular networks, IoT, Video QoE, Mobile edge computing, Software-defined Networking, Network function virtualization, Cloud computing, network security, and Networking for AI Systems.

• Own and architect multiple critical network systems and services at Meta Network Infra. The systems are used to support infra level big infra initiatives such as AI Networks, Metaverse, cloud gaming, Optical backbone, Connectivity projects.

• Deep understanding in modern distributed systems, operating systems, and databases.

Community Impact: Lead of Meta networking research and academic engagement.

• Organize various external events to build Meta brand. Including fellowship, academic awards, conference sponsorship,

• faculty summit.

• Represent Network Infra in Phd recruiting events and panels at Meta company level.

• Extensive diversity engagement: Award Chair of IEEE N2Women consortium. Program Chair of ACM N2Women. Featured at Women @ Leadership Day in 2019

• Industry leader in network automation: keynote speakers in 20+ IEEE and ACM conferences, invited talks by companies such as Google, Amazon, Netflix, Ericsson, Cisco, VMWare, and Uber.

Academic Research: Published 150+ peer-reviewed publications with 8000+ citations, 2 books, 160+ patents

• Awarded ACM senior member, IEEE Senior member.

• Program Chair and Program Committee of 30+ IEEE/ACM Conferences

• HEDGE: Mitigating effects of wavelength-specific faults in cloud WANs Arjun Devraj, Bill Owens, Umesh Krishnaswamy, Ying Zhang, Rachee Singh NSDI 2026.

• Matryoshka: Realizing Hyperscale Data Center Network Design for the AI Era Yan Cai, Jialong Li, Kutalmis Akpinar, Peter Li, Hany Morsy, Jason Wilson, Sunil Khaunte, Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang NSDI 2026.

• Congestion Patterns in a Large-scale RDMA Datacenter. Soudeh Ghorbani , Yimeng Zhao , Srikanth Sundaresan , Ying Zhang , Yijing Zeng , Abhigyan Sharma , Prashanth Kannan, Cristian Lumezanu. IMC 2025

• MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training, Xudong Liao, Yijun Sun; Han Tia; Xinchen Wan; Yilun Jin; Zilong Wang, Zhenghang Ren, Xinyang Huang, Wenxue Li; Kin Fai Tse, Zhizhen Zhong, Guyue Liu, Ying Zhang, Xiaofeng Ye, Yiming Zhang, Kai Chen. SIGCOMM 2025.

• PreTE: Traffic Engineering with Predictive Failures Congcong Miao, Zhizhen Zhong, Yiren Zhao,  Arpit Gupta, Ying Zhang, Sirui Li, Zekun He, Xianneng Zou, Jilong Wang. SIGCOMM 2025

• Unlocking Superior Performance in Reconfigurable Data Center Networks with Credit-Based Transport. Federico De Marchi, Jialong Li, Ying Zhang, Wei Bai, Yiting Xia. SIGCOMM 2025

• Intent-Driven Network Management with Multi-Agent LLMs: The Confucius Framework Zhaodong Wang, Samuel Lin, Guanqing Yan, Soudeh Ghorbani, Minlan Yu, Jiawei Zhou, Nathan Hu, Lopa Baruah, Sam Peters, Srikanth Kamath, Jerry Yang, and Ying Zhang. SIGCOMM 2025.

• Hattrick: Solving Multi-Class TE using Neural Models Zhuocong Li, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Zhaodong Wang, Ying Zhang, Sanjay Rao, Bruno Ribeiro, and Mohit Tawarmalani. SIGCOMM 2025.

• A Hybrid Route Planning Framework for Large-Scale DCN Migrations Yikai Lin, Mohab Gawish, Shih-Hao Tseng, Lixin Gao, Cen Zhao, John Tracey, Sunyi Shao, Hyojeong Kim and Ying Zhang. SIGCOMM 2025.

• LayerDAG: A Layerwise Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Directed Acyclic Graph Generation Mufei Li, Viraj Shitole, Eli Chien, Changhai Man, Zhaodong Wang, Srinivas Sridharan, Ying Zhang, Tushar Krishna, and Pan Li. ICLR 2025.

• Enabling Efficient GPU Communication over Multiple NICs with FuseLink Zhenghang Ren, Yuxuan Li, Zilong Wang, Xinyang HUANG, Wenxue Li, Kaiqiang Xu, Xudong Liao, Yijun Sun, Bowen Liu, Han Tian, Junxue Zhang, Mingfei Wang, Zhizhen Zhong, Guyue Liu, Ying Zhang, and Kai Chen. OSDI 2025.

• Heimdall: Towards Risk-Aware Network Management Outsourcing Yuejie Wang, Qiutong Men, Yongting Chen, Jiajin Liu, Gengyu Chen, Ying Zhang, Guyue Liu, and Vyas Sekar. NDSS 2025.

• Understanding Incast Bursts in Modern Datacenters Christopher Canel, Balasubramanian Madhavan, Srikanth Sundaresan, Neil Spring, Prashanth Kannan, Ying Zhang, Kevin Lin, and Srinivasan Seshan. IMC 2024.

• Occam: A Programming System for Reliable Network Management Jiarong Xing, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Yiting Xia, Yan Cai, Yanping Li, Ying Zhang, and Ang Chen. EuroSys 2024.

• NetEdit: An Orchestration Platform for eBPF Network Functions at Scale Theophilus A Benson, Prashanth Kannan, Prankur Gupta, Balasubramanian Madhavan, Kumar Saurabh Arora, Jie Meng, Martin Lau, Abhishek Dhamija, Rajiv Krishnamurthy, Srikanth Sundaresan, Neil Spring, Ying Zhang SIGCOMM 2024.

• MCCS: A Service-based Approach to Collective Communication for Multi-Tenant Cloud Yongji Wu, Yechen Xu, Jingrong Chen, Zhaodong Wang, Ying Zhang, Matthew Lentz, and Danyang Zhuo SIGCOMM 2024.

• Transferable Neural WAN TE for Changing Topologies Abd AlRhman AlQiam, Yuanjun Yao, Zhaodong Wang, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Ying Zhang, Sanjay G Rao, Bruno Ribeiro, Mohit Tawarmalani SIGCOMM 2024.

• Netcastle: Network Infrastructure Testing At Scale R. Sherwood, J. Shi, Y. Zhang, N. Spring, S. Sundaresan, J. Bagga, P. Peddi, V. Kukkadapu, R. Shrivastava, M. Ramakrishna, P. Patil, S. Gopu, V. Varadan, E. Shi, H. Morsy, Y. Bu, R. Yang, R. J¨onsson, W. Zhang, J. Arredondo, D. Saha, S. Choi NSDI 2024.

• EBB: Reliable and Evolvable Express Backbone Network in Meta Marek Denis, Yuanjun Yao, Ashley Hatch, Andrea Qin Zhang, Chiun Lin Lim, Shuqiang Zhang, Kyle Sugrue, Henry Kwok, Mikel Jimenez Fernandez, Petr Lapukhov, Sandeep Hebbani, Gaya Nagarajan, Omar Baldonado, Lixin Gao, Ying Zhang ACM SIGCOMM 2023.

• Klotski: Efficient and Safe Network Migration of Large Production Datacenters Yihao Zhao, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Hang Zhu, Zhaodong Wang, Yuandong Tian, Alex Nikulkov, Jo˜ao Ferreira, Xuanzhe Liu, Xin Jin, Ying Zhang ACM SIGCOMM 2023.

• FlexWAN: Software Hardware Co-design for Flexible and Cost-Effective Optical Backbones Congcong Miao, Zhizhen Zhong, Ying Zhang, Kunling He, Fangchao Li, Minggang Chen, Yiren Zhao, Xiang Li, Zekun He, Xianneng Zou, Jilong Wang ACM SIGCOMM 2023.

• Practical Intent-driven Routing Configuration Synthesis Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Ying Zhang, Mohab Gawish, Yogesh Mundada, Zhaodong Wang, Sangki Yun, Eric Lippert, Walid Taha, Minlan Yu and Jelena Mirkovic NSDI 2023.

• TOPOOPT: Optimizing the Network Topology for Distributed DNN Training Weiyang Wang, Moein Khazraee, Zhizhen Zhong, Zhihao Jia, Dheevatsa Mudigere, Ying Zhang, Anthony Kewitsch, Manya Ghobadi NSDI 2023.

• Cross-layer Diagnosis of Optical Backbone Failures Ying Zhang, Nathan Hu, Carl Verge, Scott O’Brien IMC 2022.

• Network Entitlement: Contract-based Network Sharing with Agility and SLO Guarantees S. Ahuja, V. Dangui, K. Patil, M. Somasundaram, V. Gupta, M. Sanchez, G. Yan, M. Noormohammadpour, A. Razmjoo, G. Smith, H. Zhong, A. Triguna, S. Bali, Y. Xiang, Y. Chen, P. Ganesan, M. Fernandez, P. Lapukhov, G. Liu, Y. Zhang. ACM SIGCOMM 2022.

• Flash: Fast, Consistent Data Plane Verification for Large-Scale Network Settings Dong Guo, Kai Gao, Qiao Xiang, Shenshen Chen, Ying Zhang, Y. Richard Yang. ACM SIGCOMM 2022.

• Evolvable Network Telemetry at Facebook Yang Zhou, Ying Zhang, Minlan Yu, Guangyu Wang, Dexter Cao, Eric Sung, Starsky Wong. NSDI 2022.

• Network Planning with Deep Reinforcement Learning Hang Zhu, Varun Gupta, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Yuandong Tian, Ying Zhang, Xin Jin. ACM SIGCOMM 2021.

• ARROW: Restoration-aware Traffic Engineering Zhizhen Zhong, Manya Ghobadi, Alaa Khaddaj, Jonathan Leach, Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang. ACM SIGCOMM 2021.

• BOW: First Real-World Demonstration of a Bayesian Optimization System for Wavelength Reconfiguration Zhizhen Zhong, Manya Ghobadi, Alaa Khaddaj, Jonathan Leach, Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang. Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2021.

• Capacity-Efficient and Uncertainty-Resilient Backbone Network Planning with Hose Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Varun Gupta, Vinayak Dangui, Soshant Bali, Abishek Gopalan, Hao Zhong, Petr Lapukhov, Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang. ACM SIGCOMM 2021.

• A Social Network Under Social Distancing:Risk-Driven Backbone Management During COVID-19 and Beyond Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang, Zhizhen Zhong, Guanqing Yan, Chiun Lin Lim, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Soshant Bali, Alexander Nikolaidis, Kimia Ghobadi, Manya Ghobadi. NSDI 2021.

• NFD: Using Behavior Models to Develop Cross-Platform Network Functions Hongyi Huang, Wenfei Wu, Yongchao He, Bangwen Deng, Ying Zhang, Yongqiang Xiong, Guo Chen, Yong Cui, Peng Cheng. IEEE INFOCOM 2021.

• Flow Algebra: Towards an Efficient, Unifying Framework for Network Management Tasks Christopher Leet, Robert Soul´e, Yang Richard Yang, Ying Zhang. IEEE INFOCOM 2021.

• Concury: a fast and light-weight software cloud load balancer Shouqian Shi, Ye Yu, Minghao Xie, Xin Li, Xiaozhou Li, Ying Zhang, Chen Qian. ACM SoCC 2020.

• Alembic: Automated Model Inference for Stateful Network Functions Soo-Jin Moon, Jeffrey Helt, Yifei Yuan, Yves Bieri, Sujata Banerjee, Vyas Sekar, Wenfei Wu, Mihalis Yannakakis, Ying Zhang. NSDI 2019.

• FBOSS: Building Switch Software at Scale Sean Choi, Boris Burkov, Alex Eckert, Tian Fang, Saman Kazemkhani, Rob Sherwood, Ying Zhang, Hongyi Zeng. ACM SIGCOMM 2018.

• SENSS Against Volumetric DDoS Attacks Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu and Ying Zhang. Proceedings of 2018 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2018.

• Netcp: Consistent, non-interruptive and efficient checkpointing and rollback of SDN Ye Yu, Chen Qian, Wenfei Wu, Ying Zhang. 2018 IEEE/ACM 26th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS).

• Supporting Diverse Dynamic Intent-based Policies using Janus Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Joon-Myung Kang, Sujata Banerjee, Aditya Akella, Ying Zhang, Wenfei Wu. ACM CoNext 2017, Seoul, Korea, Dec. 2017

• An Empirical Characterization of IFTTT: Ecosystem, Usage, and Performance Xianghang Mi, Feng Qian, Ying Zhang, XiaoFeng Wang. ACM IMC 2017, London, UK, Nov. 2017

• SLA-Verifier: Stateful and Quantitative Verification for Service Chaining Ying Zhang, Wenfei Wu, Sujata Banerjee, Joon-Myung Kang, Mario Sanchez. IEEE INFOCOM, Atlanta, GA, April 2017.

• SFC-Checker: Checking the Correct Forwarding Behavior of Service Function Chaining Brendan Tschaen, Ying Zhang, Theophilus Benson, Sujata Banerjee, Jeongkeun Lee, Joon-Myung Kang. IEEE NFV-SDN, Palo Alto, CA, November 2016.

• Automatic synthesis of NF models by program analysis Wenfei Wu, Ying Zhang, Sujata Banerjee. ACM HotNets, Atlanta, GA, November 2016.

• Providing Bandwidth Guarantees, Work Conservation and Low Latency Simultaneously in the Cloud Shuihai Hu, Wei Bai, Kai Chen, Chen Tian, Ying Zhang, Haitao Wu. IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, CA, April 2016.

• MOZART: Temporal Coordination of Measurement Xuemei Liu, Meral Shirazipour, Minlan Yu, Ying Zhang. Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), Santa Clara, CA, March 2016.

• A Spectral Approach for Large Scale Data Traffic Load: Analysis and Applications Hongzhi Shi, Yong Li, Di Wu, Ying Zhang. The IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2016), London, UK, 2016.

• PGA: Using Graphs to Express and Automatically Reconcile Network Policies C. Prakash, J. Lee, Y. Turner, J.-M. Kang, A. Akella, S. Banerjee, C. Clark, Y. Ma, P. Sharma, and Y. Zhang. ACM SIGCOMM 2015.

• Virtual Machine Migration Planning in Software-Defined Networks. Huandong Wang, Yong Li, Ying Zhang, Depeng Jin. Proceedings of the 34th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2015), Hong Kong, April 2015.

• Network Function Placement for NFV Chaining in Packet/Optical Data Centers. Ming Xia, Meral Shirazipour, Ying Zhang, Howard Green, Attila Takacs. European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Cannes, France, 2014.

• A Compressive Method for Maintaining Forwarding States in SDN Controller. Ying Zhang, Sriram Natarajan, Xin Huang, Neda Beheshti, Ravi Manghirmalani ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN), Chicago, August 2014.

• Understanding the HTTP Flow Rates in Cellular Networks. Ying Zhang, Ake Arvidsson, Matti Siekkinen, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller Proceedings of the IFIP Networking 2014, Trondheim, Norway, 2014.

• SDN and Optical Flow Steering for Network Function Virtualization. Ming Xia, Meral Shirazipour, Ying Zhang, Howard Green, Attila Takacs Open Networking Summit (Research Track), Santa Clara, CA, March 2014.

• SENSS: Software-defined Security Service. Minlan Yu, Ying Zhang, Jelena Mirkovic, Abdulla Alwabel Open Networking Summit (Research Track), Santa Clara, CA, March 2014.

• User Mobility from the View of Cellular Data Networks. Ying Zhang The 33rd Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2014), Toronto, Canada, April 2014.

• An SDN based Flow Counting Framework for Anomaly Detection. Ying Zhang The 9th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2013), Santa Barbara, California, December, 2013.

• Zeppelin - A Third Generation Data Center Network Virtualization Technology based on SDN and MPLS. James Kempf, Ying Zhang, Neda Beheshti and Ramesh Mishra In Proc. of The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet), San Francisco, California, November, 2013.

• StEERING: A Software-Defined Networking for Inline Service Chaining . Ying Zhang, Neda Beheshti, Ludovic Beliveau, Geoffrey Lefebvre, Ramesh Mishra, Ritun Patney, Erik Rubow, Ramesh Subrahmaniam, Ravi Manghirmalani, Meral Shirazipour, Catherine Truchan and Mallik Tatipamula In Proc. of The 21st IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2013), Goettingen, Germany, October, 2013.

• Detecting User Dissatisfaction and Understanding the Underlying Reasons. Ake Arvidsson and Ying Zhang Extended Abstract, In Prof. of ACM SIGMETRICS,,Pittsburgh, June, 2013.

• The Freshman Handbook: A Hint for the Server Placement of Social Networks. Ying Zhang, Du Li and Mallik Tatipamula In Proc. of the 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS),, Singapore, December, 2012.

• Fast Failover for Control Traffic in Software-defined Networks. Neda Beheshti and Ying Zhang In Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 - Next Generation Networking Symposium, , Anaheim, December, 2012.

• OpenFlow and Multi-Layer Extensions: Overview and Next Steps. Meral Shirazipour, Ying Zhang, Neda Beheshti, Geoffrey Lefebvre and Mallik TatipamulaIn Proc. of European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (EWSDN12), October, 2012.

• Towards Bandwidth Guarantee in Multi-tenancy Cloud Computing Networks. Jing Zhu, Dan Li, Jianping Wu, Hongnan Liu, Ying Zhang and Jincheng ZhangIn Prof. of IEEE ICNP, Austin, October, 2012.

• Understanding the Characteristics of Cellular Data Traffic. Ying Zhang and Ake ArvidssonIn Prof. of ACM Sigcomm CellNet Workshop, Helsinki, Finland, August, 2012.

• Studying Impacts of Prefix Interception Attack by Exploring BGP AS-PATH Prepending. Ying Zhang and Makan PourzandiIn Proc. of the 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012), Macau, China, June, 2012.

• Characterization and Design of Effective BGP AS-PATH Prepending. Ying Zhang and Mallik TatipamulaIn Proc. of The 19th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2011), Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, October, 2011.

• ALIAS: Scalable, Decentralized Label Assignment for Data Centers. Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Malveeka Tewari, Ying Zhang, Keith Marzullo and Amin VahdatIn Proc. of The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (ACM SOCC 2011) , Cascals, Portugal, October 2011.

• On Resilience of Split-Architecture Networks. Ying Zhang, Neda Beheshti and Mallik TatipamulaIn Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 - Next Generation Networking Symposium , Houston, December, 2011.

• Metering Re-ECN: Performance Evaluation and its Applicability in Cellular Networks. Ying Zhang, Ingemar Johansson, Howard Green and Mallik Tatipamula In Proc. of 23rd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) , San Francisco, September, 2011.

• Mobile Communication Congestion Exposure Scenario. D. Kutscher, R. Winter, S. Krishnan and Ying Zhang IETF

• Internet-Draft, Prague, Czech Republic, March 2011.

• Detecting Traffic Differentiation in Backbone ISPs with NetPolice. Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao and Ming Zhang, Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago, Illinois, November 2009.

• HC-BGP: A Light-weight and Flexible Scheme for Securing Prefix Ownership. Ying Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Z. Morley Mao and Y. Charlie Hu, Proceedings of 39th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2009.

• Ascertaining the Reality of Network Neutrality Violation in Backbone ISPs. Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Ming Zhang, Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets-VII), October 2008.

• iSPY: Detecting IP Prefix Hijacking on My Own. Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Randy Bush, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, August 2008.

• Effective Diagnosis of Routing Disruptions from End Systems. Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Ming Zhang, Proceedings of 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April, 2008.

• A Measurement Study of Internet Delay Asymmetry. Abhinav Pathak, Himabindu Pucha, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), April 2008.

• Practical Defenses Against BGP Prefix Hijacking. Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiment and Technologies (CoNEXT), December 2007.

• Internet Routing Resilience to Failures: Analysis and Implications. Jian Wu, Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Kang G. Shin, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiment and Technologies (CoNEXT), December 2007.

• On the Impact of Route Monitor Selection. Ying Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Y. Charlie Hu, and Bruce Maggs, Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2007.

• A Firewall for Routers: Protecting Against Routing Misbehavior. Ying Zhang, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, and Jia Wang, Proceedings of 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2007.

• Understanding Network Delay Changes Caused by Routing Events. Himabindu Pucha, Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Y. Charlie Hu, Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2007.

• A Framework for Measuring and Predicting Impact of Routing Changes. Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Jia Wang, Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 2007.

• Low-Rate TCP-Targeted DoS Attacks Disrupts Internet Routing. Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Jia Wang, Proceedings of 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2007.

• Internet-scale Malware Mitigation: Combining Intelligence of the Control and Data Plane. Ying Zhang, Evan Cooke, and Z. Morley Mao, Proceedings of ACM CCS Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM), November 2006.

• Web Service Automated Composition in Digital Library. Ying Zhang, Ming Zhang, and Shuan Wang , Proceedings of National Database Conference, China, 2004.