Menghao Zhang (张梦豪)

Associate Professor
School of Software, Beihang University

About Me

I am an Associate Professor at School of Software, Beihang University, also a member of State Key Laboratory of Complex & Critical Software Environment, Beihang University. I am also working closely with Zhongguancun Laboratory.

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 Jun., 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 over 40 papers in esteemed conferences and journals such as NSDI, EuroSys, NDSS, 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:

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: C823, 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

  1. Jinyi Xia, Menghao Zhang, Jiaxun Huang, Yuezheng Liu, Xiaohe Hu, Xudong Liu, Chunming Hu. Mnemosyne: Lightweight and Fast Error Recovery for LLM Training in a Just-In-Time Manner. In the 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet), Shanghai, China, August 7-8, 2025 (CCF-C, full paper acceptance ratio: 34/133=25.6%) [code]
  2. Zhikai Zou, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Renyu Yang, Tianyu Wo, Chunming Hu, Mingwei Xu. Research Advances in Programmable Switches Driven Network Security (基于可编程交换机的网络安全研究进展). In Joural of Software, 2025 (CCF-T1, In Chinese)
  3. 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, full paper acceptance ratio: 85/696=12.2%, top conference in System)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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]
  7. 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)
  8. 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]
  9. 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]
  10. 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]
  11. 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]
  12. 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]
  13. 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]
  14. 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]
  15. 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%)
  16. 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)
  17. 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]
  18. 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)
  19. 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)
  20. 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]
  21. 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]
  22. 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

  1. Yuanxuan Chen, Menghao Zhang, Xiheng Li, Fangzheng Jiao, Chunming Hu. Vedrfolnir: RDMA Network Performance Anomalies Diagnosis in Collective Communications. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2025
  2. Qiyang Peng, Menghao Zhang, Feiyang Wang, Guanyu Li, Chunming Hu. Astraea: Enforcing DPU Performance Isolation in Public Clouds. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2025
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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)
  6. 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
  7. 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]
  8. 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]
  9. 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)
  10. 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
  11. 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)
  12. Xiao Kong, Naijia Liu, Menghao Zhang, Mingwei Xu. Analysis of online college teaching data before and after the COVID-19 epidemic (COVID-19疫情前后高校在线教学数据分析). In Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), September 23, 2020 (In Chinese)
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Jiasong Bai, Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi. Survey of Attacks and Countermeasures for SDN. In ZTE Communications, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2018 (CCF-T3)
  18. 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]
  19. 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]
  20. Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi, Jiasong Bai, Yangyang Wang. DoS Attack Defense Framework for SDN Infrastructure (针对SDN基础设施的拒绝服务攻击防护框架). In Journal of Southeast University（Natural Science Edition), Jinan, Shandong, China, November 20-24, 2017 (In Chinese)
  21. 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]

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