About Me

Zan Zong is currently an associate professor at the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. He conducted postdoctoral research from 2022 to 2025 in the PACMAN lab of Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, collaborating with Prof. Jidong Zhai, prior to which he earned his Ph.D. in 2022 from the School of Software, Tsinghua University supervised by Prof. Lijie Wen. His research focuses on high-performance AI systems. He has published a series of papers, and served as a reviewer for several international conferences/journals such as ATC, SC, TC, TPDS, TCC, JPDC, IPDPS, ICPP, etc.

News

📌 We are recruiting undergraduate interns!

Seeking self-motivated students to build high-performance AI systems and HPC applications. If you are interested, please feel free to contact me. View Projects

What You Will Gain: 1) Research guidance and opportunities for publications; 2) Collaboration with leading research teams in both industry and academia; 3) Access to computing resources for feasible research ideas.

Requirements: 1) At least 3 full days per week; 2) Familiarity with Linux/Python/C/C++/PyTorch. Experience with GPU kernel development and distributed systems is a strong plus.

  • [2026.09] Our paper Bagualu-2 (八卦炉-2) has been selected as the Best Academic Paper of China Computational Power Conference 2026!
  • [2026.07] Congratulations to Mingshu on the acceptance of our paper to SC’2026! This work demonstrates scaling LLM training to over 10,000 accelerators! 🎉
  • [2026.05] I have been invited to serve as the web chair of NPC 2026.
  • [2026.04] Congratulations to Yuyang on the acceptance of our paper to HPDC’2026! 🎉
  • [2026.03] I have been invited to serve as a PC member for ICPP 2026.
  • [2026.02] We have released our preprint FlowPrefill, which alleviates Head-of-Line blocking in LLM serving.
  • More…

Services

Organizing Committee Member

Program Committee Member

  • HPC China, 2025
  • International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP, CCF-B), 2025, 2026
  • The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC, CCF-A), 2023

Awards

  • ACM SIGHPC China Rising Star Award.
  • CCF TCHPC Doctoral Dissertation Incentive Program (CCF高性能计算专委博士学位论文激励计划).

Contact Information

Room 601 of Kequn (East) Building,

University of Science and Technology Beijing,

Haidian District, Beijing 100083