University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S. in Computer Science • August 2018 — May 2020 (Expected)
Tsinghua University
B.E. in Software Engineering • September 2014 — July 2018
• Linux Administration (with RHCE certification)
Network Security Business Unit, VMware, Inc
Product Development Intern • 05/2019 — 08/2019 • Palo Alto, USA
Supervised by manager Pradeep Singh. Responsible for centralizing cloud abstraction layer in VMware SDDC solution.
- Programed a Remote Procedure Call channel between Layer 3 Update Daemon on ESX datapath and NSX management plane for VMotion message communication.
- Configured virtual switches and routers on ESX datapath to build a broadcast domain to enhance the reachability of NSX manager under VMotion.
- Adopted GraphQL to fix over-fetching and under-fetching problem in vCenter API during VMware 2019 Hackathon.
Dpt. of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Assistant • 09/2018 — Present • WI, USA
Supervised by Prof. Aditya Akella for Software Defined Networking research.
- Analyzed performance loss of implementing complicated network protocols (e.g. RCP, pFabric) approximately on programmable switches through NS-3 simulations.
- Exploring the mechanism of implementing complicated network protocols accurately by dividing labor on both CPUs and ASIC in Barefoot Tofino Switches.
Baidu, Inc
Cloud Operation Engineer Intern • 05/2018 — 07/2018 • Beijing, China
Supervised by manager Xibei Jia. Responsible for private cloud service monitoring and alert.
- Extracted performance metrics from cloud servers to monitor via configuration file in JSON.
- Visualized metric data for clusters via internal platform - Sia and Noah.
- Added new performance alerts for cloud services (e.g., speech-to-text service).
INST of Network Sciences & Cyberspace of Tsinghua University
Research Assistant • 03/2017 — 11/2017 • Beijing, China
Supervised by Prof. Jun Bi for Software Defined Networking research.
- Designed a behavior-level caching mechanism for P4 programmable data plane.
- Implemented typical network functions (e.g., forwarding, routing and ACL) using P4 programming language.
- Evaluated the caching mechanism with typical network functions on two software targets - BMv2 and DPDK.
UNI NOVA LIMITED, Inc
Front End Developer Intern • 07/2016 — 09/2016 • Beijing, China
Supervised by CTO Peng Jiang. Responsible for front-end development of its official website.
- Cooperated with Django CMS (Content Management System) to refactor the 'About us' and 'Help' pages.
- Accomplished 'Frequently Asked Questions' page using Ajax.
- Implemented the housing source selection mechanism based on check in or check out date using JavaScript.
- Used front-end test package — Nightwatch.js to test key pages of the website.
Yin Liu, Junyi Wei, Zijun Ma, Hanying Jiang, Yihan Zhang
Midwest Machine Learning Symposium (MMLS)
June 6-7, 2019, Madison, WI, USA
Yuguang Yao, Zijun Ma and Zhichao Cao
Workshop on Low Power Wide Area Networks for Internet of Things (LPNET)
February 25-27, 2019, Beijing, China
Cheng Zhang, Jun Bi, Yu Zhou, Keyao Zhang, Zijun Ma
IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
June 25-28, 2018, Natal, Brazil
Zijun Ma, Jun Bi, Cheng Zhang, Yu Zhou, Abdul Basit Dogar
ACM International Conference on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) Posters and Demos
August 22–24, 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Graduated with a GPA in top 10% of School of Software Engineering, 2018
• 3rd Prize in Curriculum Scholarship, 2016
• Competitive World Scholarship, 2015
• 1st Prize in junior group of National Olympiad in Informatics in Province, 2010, 2011