Hi! I am a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Virginia, fortunately working with Prof. Qizhe Cai. My research focuses on efficient networking for wide-area, datacenter, and host. E-mail: zuotianyu [at] virginia.edu Permanent Homepage: https://netian.me/

• [IEEE TDSC '26] Chungang Lin, Weiyao Zhang, Meng Shen, Yilong Jiang, Tianyu Zuo, Haitong Luo, Yequan Wang, Xuying Meng, and Yujun Zhang. "Is the Data Really Noisy? Rethinking Traffic Filtering for Encrypted Traffic Classification." [Link]
• [SIGCOMM '26] Tianyu Zuo, Jaehyun Hwang, Ao Tang, Rachit Agarwal, Qizhe Cai. "Understanding Host Network Stack Latency." [Slide] [PDF] [Code: we will opensource the code after AE deadline, sorry for the delay!]
• [arXiv Preprint] Chungang Lin, Xuying Meng, Tianyu Zuo, ...... , and Yujun Zhang. "Versatile yet Efficient Network Traffic Analysis: Offloading Network Foundation Model to SmartNIC." [arXiv]
• [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." [PDF]
• [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." [arXiv]
• [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] [PDF]

• External Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Networking
• Artifact Evaluation Committee: SIGCOMM '25, OSDI '26
• Teaching Assistant: CS/ECE4457 Spring '26, CS6501 Fall '26

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

• I hold a Master's degree from the University (and Institute of Computing Technology) of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University. Feel free to checkout my history photos.
Beijing, Dandong, Guangzhou, Hongkong, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenyang, Kyoto, Osaka, Shizuoka, Tokyo, and ...?
• Rumor has it that I am a Stand User.
• I maintain a list of my rejection records.

E-mail: zuotianyu (at) virginia (dot) edu
Office: 831 Bottom Feeder Lane, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean