About Me
I am an Associate Professor at School of Software, Beihang University. Before joining in Beihang, I was a Joint Post-Doctoral Researcher at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University and Networking Team, Kuaishou Technology. I got my Ph.D. Degree at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University in Jul. 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Jianping Wu and Prof. Mingwei Xu, and got my B.S. Degree at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University in Jul., 2016. From Feb., 2019 to Jul., 2019, I worked as a visiting scholar at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, under the supervision of Prof. Guofei Gu.
Broadly, I mainly engaged in cutting-edge research in the fields of programmable networks, high-performance networks, networked systems and network security, with a long-term focus on enhancing the efficiency, security and reliability of networked systems in the face of rapidly growing network traffic and multifaceted application demands. Over the course of my career, I have published more than 30 papers in esteemed conferences and journals such as NDSS, NSDI, EuroSys, Security, INFOCOM, ICNP, RAID, SoCC, HotNets, JSAC, TON, TDSC, TIFS, TPDS, with one of them earned the Best Paper Award Nomination at IEEE INFOCOM 2021. My recent research interests including:
- Programmable Network (e.g., SDN, NFV, P4, DPDK, eBPF);
- High-Performance Networking (e.g., RDMA, SmartNIC, DPU/IPU);
- Distributed system for LLM (e.g., CXL, OCS, NCCL, Megatron/DeepSpeed, TensorRT-LLM);
- AI-driven network security and networked systems.
My official bio in Chinese maintained by Beihang University can be found here 中文简介.
Email: zhangmenghao0503@gmail.com or zhangmenghao@buaa.edu.cn
Office: D306, New Main Building, Beihang University
I am looking for self-motivated students with strong programming skills to work with me. If you are interested, feel free to contact me with email.
Publications (Google Scholar)
Selected Publications
- Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Cheng Guo, Renyu Yang, Shicheng Wang, Han Bao, Xiao Li, Mingwei Xu, Tianyu Wo, Chunming Hu. SuperFE: A Scalable and Flexible Feature Extractor for ML-based Traffic Analysis Applications. In the 20th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 30-April 3, 2025 (CCF-A, top conference in System)
- Xue Li, Cheng Guo, Kun Qian, Menghao Zhang, Mengyu Yang, Mingwei Xu. Near-Lossless Gradient Compression for Data-Parallel Distributed DNN Training. In the 15th edition of the annual ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), Redmond, WA, USA, November 20th-22nd, 2024 (CCF-B)
- Ziyang Liu, Renyu Yang, Jin Ouyang, Weihan Jiang, Tianyu Ye, Menghao Zhang, Sui Huang, Jiaming Huang, Chengru Song, Di Zhang, Tianyu Wo, Chunming Hu. Kale: Elastic GPU Scheduling for Online DL Model Training. In the 15th edition of the annual ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), Redmond, WA, USA, November 20th-22nd, 2024 (CCF-B)
- Ziteng Chen, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Jiahao Cao, Yang Jing, Mingwei Xu, Renjie Xie, He Liu, Fangzheng Jiao, Xiaohe Hu. Paraleon: Automatic and Adaptive Tuning for DCQCN Parameters in RDMA Networks. In the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Charleroi, Belgium, October 28-31, 2024 (CCF-B, full paper acceptance ratio: 50/205=24.4%) [code]
- Renjie Xie, Jiahao Cao, Yuxi Zhu, Yixiang Zhang, Yi He, Hanyi Peng, Yixiao Wang, Mingwei Xu, Kun Sun, Enhuan Dong, Qi Li, Menghao Zhang, Jiang Li. Cactus: Obfuscating Bidirectional Encrypted TCP Traffic at Client Side. In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2024 (CCF-A, SCI Impact Factor 6.8, top journal in Network and Information Security)
- Shicheng Wang, Menghao Zhang, Yuying Du, Ziteng Chen, Zhiliang Wang, Mingwei Xu, Renjie Xie, Jiahai Yang. LoRDMA: A New Low-Rate DoS Attack in RDMA Networks. In the 30th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 26-March 1, 2024 (CCF-A, top conference in Security) [code]
- Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Cheng Guo, Han Bao, Mingwei Xu, Hongxin Hu, Fenghua Li. IMap: Toward a Fast, Scalable and Reconfigurable In-Network Scanner with Programmable Switches. In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 19, pp. 601-615, 2024 (CCF-A, SCI Impact Factor 6.8, top journal in Network and Information Security) [code]
- Renjie Xie, Jiahao Cao, Enhuan Dong, Mingwei Xu, Kun Sun, Qi Li, Licheng Shen, Menghao Zhang. Rosetta: Enabling Robust TLS Encrypted Traffic Classification in Diverse Network Environments with TCP-Aware Traffic Augmentation. In the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023 (CCF-A, top conference in Security) [code]
- Shicheng Wang, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Chang Liu, Zhiliang Wang, Ying Liu, Mingwei Xu. Bolt: Scalable and Cost-Efficient Multi-String Pattern Matching with Programmable Switches. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 846-861, April 2023 (CCF-A, SCI Impact Factor 3.315, top journal in Computer Networks) [code]
- Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Xiao Kong, Chang Liu, Mingwei Xu, Guofei Gu, Jianping Wu. NetHCF: Filtering Spoofed IP Traffic With Programmable Switches. In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 1641-1655, March-April 2023 (CCF-A, SCI Impact Factor 7.329, top journal in Network and Information Security) [code]
- Yi Qiao, Menghao Zhang, Yu Zhou, Xiao Kong, Han Zhang, Mingwei Xu, Jun Bi, Jilong Wang. NetEC: Accelerating Erasure Coding Reconstruction with In-Network Aggregation. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2571-2583, October 2022 (CCF-A, SCI Impact Factor 2.687, top journal in High Performance Computing) [code]
- Guanyu Li, Menghao Zhang, Cheng Guo, Han Bao, Mingwei Xu, Hongxin Hu, Fenghua Li. IMap: Fast and Scalable In-Network Scanning with Programmable Switches. In the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Renton, WA, USA, April 4-6, 2022 (CCF-A, full paper acceptance ratio: 50/298=16.8%, top conference in Networked System) [code]
- Guanyu Li, Menghao Zhang, Cheng Guo, Han Bao, Mingwei Xu, Hongxin Hu. Switches are Scanners Too! A Fast and Scalable In-Network Scanner with Programmable Switches. In the 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Virtual Conference, November 10-12, 2021 (CCF-C, full paper acceptance ratio: 31/101=30.7%)
- Guanyu Li, Menghao Zhang, Shicheng Wang, Chang Liu, Mingwei Xu, Ang Chen, Hongxin Hu, Guofei Gu, Qi Li, Jianping Wu. Enabling Performant, Flexible and Cost-Efficient DDoS Defense with Programmable Switches. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1509-1526, August 2021 (CCF-A, SCI Impact Factor 3.315, top journal in Computer Networks)
- Shicheng Wang, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Chang Liu, Ying Liu, Xuya Jia, Mingwei Xu. Making Multi-String Pattern Matching Scalable and Cost-Efficient with Programmable Switching ASICs. In the 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Virtual Conference, May 10-13, 2021 (CCF-A, full paper acceptance ratio: 251/1266=19.7%, Best Paper Award Nomination, Top 13 out of 251 accepted papers) [code]
- Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Lei Xu, Jiasong Bai, Mingwei Xu, Guofei Gu, Jianping Wu. Control Plane Reflection Attacks and Defenses in Software-Defined Networks. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 623-636, April 2021 (CCF-A, SCI Impact Factor 3.315, top journal in Computer Networks)
- Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Shicheng Wang, Chang Liu, Ang Chen, Hongxin Hu, Guofei Gu, Qi Li, Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu. Poseidon: Mitigating Volumetric DDoS Attacks with Programmable Switches. In the 27th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 23-26, 2020 (CCF-A, full paper acceptance ratio: 88/506=17.4%, top conference in Security)
- Guanyu Li, Menghao Zhang, Chang Liu, Xiao Kong, Ang Chen, Guofei Gu, Haixin Duan. NetHCF: Enabling Line-rate and Adaptive Spoofed IP Traffic Filtering. In the 27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 7-10, 2019 (CCF-B, full paper acceptance ratio: 38/210=18.1%) [code]
- Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi, Kai Gao, Yi Qiao, Guanyu Li, Xiao Kong, Zhaogeng Li, Hongxin Hu. Tripod: Towards a Scalable, Efficient and Resilient Cloud Gateway. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 570-585, March 2019 (CCF-A, SCI Impact Factor 11.42, top journal in Communications) [code]
- Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Lei Xu, Jun Bi, Guofei Gu, Jiasong Bai. Control Plane Reflection Attacks in SDNs: New Attacks and Countermeasures. In the 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 10-12, 2018 (CCF-B, full paper acceptance ratio: 32/145=22.1%)
Others
- Yuyan Zhao, Menghao Zhang, Tianyu Wo, Renyu Yang, Chunming Hu. BTDefense: A Priority-Aware Adaptive Strategy Against the Block Table Overflow Attack in vLLM. In SOSP Poster, Hilton Austin, Texas, USA, November 4–6, 2024
- Rixin Liu, Menghao Zhang, Zihan Niu, Zili Meng, Xiaohe Hu. Themis: Efficiently Mitigating Congestion-Induced Fairness Disparities in Long-Haul RDMA Networks. In SOSP Poster, Hilton Austin, Texas, USA, November 4–6, 2024
- Xinhao Deng, Mingwei Xu, Qi Li, Weijie Wu, Yuan Yang, Menghao Zhang, Yu Zhou, Jianping Wu. Exploring Dynamic Rule Caching Under Dependency Constraints for Programmable Switches: Theory, Algorithm, and Implementation. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2024 (CCF-C)
- Shiguang Zhang, Jiahao Cao, Menghao Zhang, Mingwei Xu, Wei Han, Yanbin Zhai, Zhiming Zhang. Co4U: Efficient and Robust HTTP Message Compression for Edge Computing Networks. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, Sydney, Australia, August 4-8, 2024
- Haotian Deng, Yuan Yang, Menghao Zhang, Mingwei Xu. CAVER: Enhancing RDMA Load Balancing by Hunting Less-Congested Paths. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, Sydney, Australia, August 4-8, 2024 [code]
- Xiao Li, Shicheng Wang, Menghao Zhang, Zhiliang Wang, Mingwei Xu, Jiahai Yang. RDMA Network Performance Anomalies Diagnosis with Hawkeye. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, Sydney, Australia, August 4-8, 2024 [code]
- Cheng Guo, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Mingwei Xu. MulTA: Enabling Cost-efficient Multi-task Network Traffic Analysis. In IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 4-8, 2023 (CCF-C)
- Ziteng Chen, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Mingwei Xu. Chameleon: Automatic and Adaptive Tuning for DCQCN Parameters in RDMA Networks. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, New York, USA, September 10-14, 2023
- Yichi Xu, Guanyu Li, Jiamin Cao, Menghao Zhang, Ying Liu, Mingwei Xu. HyperClassifier: Accurate, Extensible and Scalable Traffic Classification with Programmable Switches. In IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), Rome, Italy, May 28-June 01, 2023 (CCF-C)
- Xiao Kong, Naijia Liu, Menghao Zhang, Mingwei Xu. Analysis of online college teaching data before and after the COVID-19 epidemic. In Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), September 23, 2020 (In Chinese)
- Jiasong Bai, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Chang Liu, Mingwei Xu, Hongxin Hu. FastFE: Accelerating ML-based Traffic Analysis with Programmable Switches. In the 1st Workshop on Secure Programmable Network Infrastructure (SPIN), co-located with SIGCOMM 2020, New York, USA, August 10, 2020
- Yi Qiao, Xiao Kong, Menghao Zhang, Yu Zhou, Mingwei Xu, Jun Bi. Towards In-network Acceleration of Erasure Coding. In the ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), San Jose, CA, USA, March 3, 2020
- Shicheng Wang, Chang Liu, Ying Liu, Guanyu Li, Menghao Zhang, Yangyang Wang, Mingwei Xu. Fast Multi-string Pattern Matching using PISA. In CoNEXT Posters and Demos, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 9-12, 2019
- Menghao Zhang, Jiasong Bai, Guanyu Li, Zili Meng, Hongda Li, Hongxin Hu, Mingwei Xu. When NFV Meets ANN: Rethinking Elastic Scaling for ANN-based NFs. In the 1st Workshop on Harnessing the Data Revolution in Networking (HDR-Nets), co-located with ICNP 2019, Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 7, 2019
- Jiasong Bai, Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi. Survey of Attacks and Countermeasures for SDN. In ZTE Communications, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2018
- Jiasong Bai, Jun Bi, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li. NetHCF: Filtering Spoofed IP Traffic Using Switching ASICs. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-25, 2018 [code]
- Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi, Jiasong Bai, Guanyu Li. FloodShield: Securing the SDN Infrastructure Against Denial-of-Service Attacks. In the 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (TrustCom), New York, USA, July 31-August 3, 2018 (CCF-C) [code]
- Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi, Jiasong Bai, Yangyang Wang. DoS Attack Defense Framework for SDN Infrastructure. In Journal of Southeast University(Natural Science Edition), Jinan, Shandong, China, November 20-24, 2017 (In Chinese)
- Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi, Jiasong Bai, Zhao Dong, Yongbin Li, Zhaogeng Li. FTGuard: A Priority-Aware Strategy Against the Flow Table Overflow Attack in SDN. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 22–24, 2017 [code]
Patents
- 王之梁,王士诚,张梦豪,陈子腾,徐明伟,谢仁杰,杨家海. RDMA场景下低速率拒绝服务攻击流量生成方法与装置[P]. 202410058070.6, 2024-01-15.
- 曹世伟,张玓,丘子隽,张梦豪,戚宝侃,谢旭明,许辉,刘洋. GPU通信分组、任务调度方法、装置、设备与介质[P]. 202311658557.X, 2023-12-05.
- 徐明伟,张梦豪,李冠宇,郭诚,包涵. 网络扫描装置[P]. 202210822656.6, 2022-07-12. (已授权)
- 徐明伟,郭诚,李冠宇,张梦豪,王士诚,李琦. 流量特征提取方法、系统、存储介质及电子设备[P]. 202111322171.2, 2021-11-09. (已授权)
- 刘莹,王士诚,张梦豪,李冠宇,刘畅,徐明伟. 多字符串模式匹配方法、装置、计算机设备及存储介质[P]. 202110270270.4, 2021-03-12. (已授权)
- 毕军,张梦豪,白家松,高凯. 一种基于软件定义网络的源地址验证系统[P]. 201810191268.6, 2018-09-28. (已授权)
Research Grants
- “Research on Malicious Traffic Detection System Based on Programmable Data Plane (基于可编程数据平面的恶意流量检测系统研究)”, PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金青年项目62402025), 2025.1-2027.12
- “Research on Fast Fault Recovery and Communication Recovery Technologies for Large-scale AI Training Clusters (面向大规模AI训练集群的快速故障恢复与通讯恢复技术研究)”, PI, Beihang-Huawei Key Software Joint Laboratory Project (北航-华为关键软件联合实验室项目TC20220105488), 2024.8-2025.7
- “Migration and Verification of Open Source Large Models to Domestic Software and Hardware (国产开源大模型向国产软硬件的迁移验证)”, Co-PI, Beijing Science and Technology Plan Project (北京市科技计划项目Z231100010323013), 2024.5-2025.12
- “Research on Network Architecture of Large-Scale Distributed Deep Learning Training Cluster based on Optical Interconnection (基于光互连的大规模分布式深度学习训练集群的架构方案研究)”, PI, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (中国博士后科学基金资助项目2022M720202), 2022.8-2023.12
- “Research on High-Performance Network Security Situation Awareness System in Data Center (数据中心高性能网络安全态势感知系统研究)”, PI, Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation (北京市博士后工作经费资助2022-ZZ-078), 2022.3-2023.12
Professional Services
Artifact Evaluation Committee
- Usenix Security Symposium (Security), 2023, 2024
- Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2019
Technical Program Committee
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2021
- ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) poster, 2020, 2021
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
- IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
- Computer Networks (CN)
- Computers & Security
External/Sub Reviewer
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2020
- Usenix Security Symposium (Security), 2021
- ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2019, 2020, 2021
- International Symposium on Research Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2019
- Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2019
- Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2020
- European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2019
- ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2017
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2017, 2018
- IFIP International Conferences on Networking (Networking), 2020
Teaching Experience
- Discrete Mathematics 2, Beihang University, Autumn 2024
- Lecturer, Computer Network Architecture, Tsinghua University, Autumn 2021, 2022, 2023 worked with Prof. Mingwei Xu
- Teaching Assistant, Internet Architecture and Security Foundation, Tsinghua University, Autumn 2019, worked with Prof. Qi Li
- Teaching Assistant, Network Routing Protocols and Security, Tsinghua University, Spring 2018, worked with Prof. Jun Bi
- Teaching Assistant, Internet Routing Algorithms and Protocols, Tsinghua University, Autumn 2017, worked with Prof. Jun Bi
- Teaching Assistant, Internet Architecture and Security Foundation, Tsinghua University, Autumn 2017, worked with Prof. Jun Bi
Selected Honors and Awards
- Personal Rock Award, Dept. of Basic Technology, Kuaishou Technology, 2022
- Selected in “Talented Youth Program”, Huawei, 2022
- Kwai Star Special Technical Talent Program, Kuaishou Technology, 2021
- Outstanding Ph.D Graduate, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, 2021
- Outstanding Ph.D Graduate, Beijing, 2021 (Top 7 out of 100+ Ph.D Graduates in the CS department)
- Selected in “Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program”, Tsinghua University, 2021
- Intel Bug Bounty Awards for High-Impact Software Bugs on Tofino Switch, 2021 ($5,000)
- 2nd prize, 84 Scholarship for Innovations and Future, Tsinghua University, 2020 (¥50,000, 1st prize vacancy this year)
- Tang Lixin Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2020
- Souhu Research and Development Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2019
- IEEE ICNP Travel Grant, 2019
- Tsinghua Scholarship for Overseas Graduate Studies, 2018
- The Scholarship from Shanghai FiXun Digital Communication Technology Co., Ltd, Tsinghua University, 2017
- Student Chair, CCF ICoC 2017 Doctoral Forum, 2017
- ACM SIGCOMM Travel Grant, 2017
- Outstanding Graduate, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, 2016
- 3rd prize, Tsinghua University Network Security Technology Challenge Cup, 2015
- The Scholarship for Excellence in Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University, 2015
- The Scholarship of Huang Yicong and his wife, Tsinghua University, 2015
- 3rd prize, Tsinghua University Challenge Cup, 2015
- National Endeavor Scholarship in Tsinghua University, 2014
- The Scholarship of Huang Yicong and his wife, Tsinghua University, 2013
- 1st prize, National Physics Contest of College Students, 2013
Useful Links
- Top Conferences in Computer Science (CSRankings)
- Conference H5-Index in Computer Science (AMiner)
- Conference Ranking by Chinese Computer Federation (CCF)
- Conference Ranking by Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University (TH-CPL)
- Top 4 Security Conference Statistic
- Computer Security Conference Statistics (By Dr. Guofei Gu)
- Top Cyber Security Conferences Ranking (By Dr. Jianying Zhou)
- Normalized Top-100 Security Papers (By Dr. Konrad Rieck)