I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto, under the supervision of Prof. Angela Demke Brown and Prof. Eyal de Lara. My current research focuses on Systems and Networking.

I received my B.Eng. degree with Honours, First Class from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen in 2022, majored in Computer Science and Engineering and advised by Prof. Fangxin Wang.

Contact Info & CV #

[email protected] · Google Scholar · Github · CV as of January 2024

Publications #

Dayou Zhang, Lai Wei, Kai Shen, Hao Zhu, Dan Wang, Fangxin Wang. “TrimStream: Adaptive Realtime Video Streaming in Adverse Network Conditions,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024.

Dayou Zhang, Hao Zhu, Kai Shen, Dan Wang, Fangxin Wang. “DSJA: Distributed Server-Driven Joint Route Scheduling and Streaming Adaptation for Multi-Party Realtime Video Streaming,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023.
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Kai Shen, Baochun Li. “Learning-Based Network Performance Estimators: The Next Frontier for Network Simulation,” in IEEE Network, Special Issue on Interplay Between Machine Learning and Networking Systems, July 2023.
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Kai Shen, Dayou Zhang, Zi Zhu, Lei Zhang, Fangxin Wang, Dan Wang. “SJA: Server-driven Joint Adaptation of Loss and Bitrate for Multi-Party Realtime Video Streaming,” in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2023, New York Area, U.S.A., May 17 - 20, 2023.
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Dayou Zhang*, Kai Shen*, Fangxin Wang, Dan Wang, Jiangchuan Liu. “Towards Joint Loss and Bitrate Adaption in Realtime Video Streaming,” in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2022), Taipei, Taiwan, July 18 - 22, 2022.
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Teaching Experience #

Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto: #

APS105 – Computer Fundamentals, Winter 2024

CSC369 - Operating Systems, Fall 2023

CSC148 – Introduction to Computer Science, Winter 2023

Teaching Assistant at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen: #

CSC3150 - Operating Systems, Spring 2022

Professional Services (Reviewers) #

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)

Awards #

University of Toronto Fellowship, Department of ECE, UofT. 2022 - 2024

Dean’s List, School of Data Science, CUHK(SZ). 2019 - 2021

Academic Performance Scholarship, School of Data Science, CUHK(SZ). 2021

Undergraduate Student Research Scholarship, School of Data Science, CUHK(SZ). 2021, 2022

Bowen’s Admission Scholarship, CUHK(SZ). 2018 - 2022