Hi! I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Virginia. My research interest is networking - to achieve efficient data communication for wide-area, datacenter, and host network. E-mail: zuotianyu [at] virginia.edu Permanent Homepage: https://netian.me/

• [arXiv Preprint] Chungang Lin, Weiyao Zhang, Tianyu Zuo, Chao Zha, Yilong Jiang, Ruiqi Meng, Haitong Luo, Xuying Meng, Yujun Zhang. "Convolutions are Competitive with Transformers for Encrypted Traffic Classification with Pre-training." [Paper]
  


• [IWQoS'25] Wen Wang, Shuyong Zhu, Tianyu Zuo, Zhiyuan Wu, and Yujun Zhang. "NET-SM4: A High-performance Secure Encryption Mechanism Based on In-Network Computing." [Paper]
  


• [IWQoS'25] Chungang Lin, Yilong Jiang, Weiyao Zhang, Xuying Meng, Tianyu Zuo, and Yujun Zhang. "TraGe: A Generic Packet Representation for Traffic Classification Based on Header-Payload Differences." [Paper]
  


• [IWQoS'24] Tianyu Zuo, Tao Sun, Shuyong Zhu, Wenxiao Li, Lu Lu, Zongpeng Du, and Yujun Zhang. "LoWAR: Enhancing RDMA over Lossy WANs with Transparent Error Correction." [Slide] [Paper]
  

• SIGCOMM 2025 Artifact Evaluation Committee
• CS/ECE4457 Spring 2026 Teaching Assistant

• Merit Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2024.
• Academic Scholarship (First Prize), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2023, 2024.

• I used to study at the University (and Institute of Computing Technology) of Chinese Academy of Sciences as a master's student, and Tsinghua University as an undergraduate student. I've luckily earned both degrees.
• I speak Japanese and I've been learning since the 2^nd undergraduate year.
• I enjoy whirlwind trips: Beijing, Dandong, Guangzhou, Hongkong, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenyang, Kyoto, Osaka, Shizuoka, Tokyo, and ...?
• I maintain a list of my rejection records.

E-mail: zuotianyu (at) virginia (dot) edu
Office: Rice Hall 336, 85 Engineer's Way, Charlottesville, VA 22903.