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Anchengcheng Zhou
PhD Student
Princeton University
About Me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science from Princeton University, advised by Maria Apostolaki. I am broadly interested in networks and systems, including their intersections with machine learning.

Before Princeton, I was fortunate to work with P. Brighten Godfrey from UIUC. I received my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, where I was fortunate to work with Kunal Agrawal and Angelina Lee.

Education
  • Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Department of Computer Science
    Sep. 2022 - Present
  • Washington University in St. Louis
    Washington University in St. Louis
    B.S. in Computer Science
    Aug. 2017 - May. 2021
Honors & Awards
  • Gordon Wu Fellowship, Princeton University
    2022 - 2027
  • Valedictorian, Washington University in St. Louis
    2021
  • 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum Selected Young Researcher
    2020
Selected Publications (view all )
Starfish: A Topology-Routing Co-Design for Small-Scale Data Centers
Starfish: A Topology-Routing Co-Design for Small-Scale Data Centers

Anchengcheng Zhou, Vipul Harsh (Conviva), Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (University of California, Irvine), Maria Apostolaki, P. Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Broadcom)

23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'26)

Starfish: A Topology-Routing Co-Design for Small-Scale Data Centers

Anchengcheng Zhou, Vipul Harsh (Conviva), Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (University of California, Irvine), Maria Apostolaki, P. Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Broadcom)

23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'26)

Controlling Arbitrary Internet Queues with Titrate
Controlling Arbitrary Internet Queues with Titrate

Anchengcheng Zhou, Joshua Lau, P. Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Broadcom), Maria Apostolaki

23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'26)

Controlling Arbitrary Internet Queues with Titrate

Anchengcheng Zhou, Joshua Lau, P. Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Broadcom), Maria Apostolaki

23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'26)

Mitigating Inter-datacenter Incast with a Proxy
Mitigating Inter-datacenter Incast with a Proxy

Anchengcheng Zhou, Carter Costic, Hongyu Hè, Ahmad Ghalayini (Microsoft), Abdul Kabbani (Microsoft), Maria Apostolaki

24th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets'25)

Mitigating Inter-datacenter Incast with a Proxy

Anchengcheng Zhou, Carter Costic, Hongyu Hè, Ahmad Ghalayini (Microsoft), Abdul Kabbani (Microsoft), Maria Apostolaki

24th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets'25)

All publications
Teaching
  • COS 226: Algorithms and Data Structures
    Teaching Assistant , Fall 2024 , Princeton University
  • ECE 529B: Special Topics in Information Sciences and Systems: Security and Performance Challenges in Networked Systems
    Teaching Assistant , Spring 2025 , Princeton University
  • CSE 347: Analysis of Algorithms
    Teaching Assistant , Spring 2021 , Washington University in St. Louis
  • CSE 247: Data Structures and Algorithms
    Teaching Assistant , Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 , Washington University in St. Louis
  • CSE 131: Introduction to Computer Science
    Teaching Assistant , Spring 2018 , Washington University in St. Louis
Internships
  • Research Intern (Remote), HP Labs, Summer 2025
  • Research Intern, Microsoft, Summer 2024
  • Software Engineer Intern (Co-op), Audible, Fall 2020
  • Software Engineer Intern, Palantir, Summer 2019
  • Software Engineer Intern, Mentor Spaces, Summer 2018
Services
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee, SIGCOMM'25
  • Sub-Reviewer, NSDI'24 / HotNets'24 / NSDI'23