I am currently an Associate Professor at the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CNIC, CAS). I am also a Master’s Supervisor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2016, and my Ph.D. from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS), in 2022 (supervised by Prof. Gaogang Xie).

My research interests include computer network system architecture, network artificial intelligence, 6G networks, and optimization of XR applications.

We are currently looking for interns. If you are interested, feel free to contact me via e-mail.

Publications

  1. Xinyi Zhang, Qianrui Qiu, Zhiyuan Xu, Peng He, Xilai Liu, Kavé Salamatian, Changhua Pei, Gaogang Xie. NPC: Rethinking Dataplane through Network-aware Packet Classification (ACM SIGCOMM, 2025)

  2. Shiyi Liu, Yanbiao Li, Xin Wang, Xinyi Zhang, Zhuoran Ma, Haitao Liu, and Gaogang Xie. Demystifying the Mobile Control Plane Characteristics for Ubiquitous Connectivity. (ACM IMC, 2025)

  3. Zhuoran Ma, Yanbiao Li, Xin Wang, Xian Yu, Xinyi Zhang, Shiyi Liu, Kun Xie, Gaogang Xie, H-NRF: A High-performance and Evolutive NRF Framework for Large-scale Mobile Core Network (Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking, 2025)

  4. Jianer Zhou, Zhiyuan Pan, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Weichao Li, Xinyi Qiu, Heng Pan, Xinyi Zhang, Gaogang Xie, Safety in DRL-Based Congestion Control: A Framework Empowered by Expert Refinement (IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2025)

  5. Haitao Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Chuanmin Jia, Yanbiao Li, Gaogang Xie. AKI360: Enabling Highly Interactive 360-degree Video Streaming by Adaptive Keyframe Interval (ICASSP, 2025)

  6. Xinyi Zhang, Zhiyuan Xu, Huaiyi Zhao, Yanbiao Li, Gaogang Xie. TAR: Traffic Adaptive IPv6 Routing Lookup Scheme (Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking, 2024)

  7. Encheng Yu, Jianer Zhou, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Weichao Li, Xinyi Zhang, Zhiwei Xu, Gaogang Xie. Mustang: Improving QoE for Real-Time Video in Cellular Networks by Masking Jitter (ACM TOMM, 2024)

  8. Xilai Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Bingqing Liu, Tao Li, Tong Yang, Gaogang Xie. 2FA Sketch: Two-Factor Armor Sketch for Accurate and Efficient Heavy Hitter Detection in Data Streams (20th NPC 2024)

  9. Xinyi Zhang, Huaiyi Zhao, Jianer Zhou, Furong Yang, Shiyi Liu, Gaogang Xie. Remote Collaborations in Metaverse under 5G Mobile Networks (IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023)

  10. Jianer Zhou, Zengxie Ma, Weijian Tu, Xinyi Qiu, Jingpu Duan, Zhenyu Li, Qing Li, Xinyi Zhang, Weichao Li. Cable: A framework for accelerating 5G UPF based on eBPF (Computer Networks, 2023)

  11. Penghao Zhang, Xinyi Zhang. An Efficient Network Flow Rules Compression Method Based On In-Network Computation On Cloud Computing (IEEE 29th ICPADS, 2023)

  12. Huaiyi Zhao, Xinyi Zhang, Kun Xie, Dong Tian, Gaogang Xie. RecMon: A Deep Learning-based Data Recovery System for Network Monitoring (IEEE INFOCOM, 2023)

  13. Huaiyi Zhao, Xinyi Zhang, Yang Wang, Zulong Diao, Yanbiao Li, Gaogang Xie. Improving the Scalability of Distributed Network Emulations: an Algorithmic Perspective (IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2023)

  14. Furong Yang, Zhenyu Li, Jianer Zhou, Xinyi Zhang, Qinghua Wu, Giovanni Pau, Gaogang Xie. Disco: A Framework for Dynamic Selection of Multipath Congestion Control Algorithms (IEEE ICNP, 2023)

  15. Xinyi Zhang, Kavé Salamatian, Gaogang Xie. Improving open virtual switch performance through tuple merge relaxation in software defined networks (IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2022)

  16. Haitao Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Xiang Zhou, Tianyun Zhang, Yanbiao Li, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie. When 360-degree video meets 5G: a measurement study of delay in live streaming (ACM MobiArch, 2022)

  17. Xinyi Zhang, Gaogang Xie, Xin Wang, Penghao Zhang, Yanbiao Li, Kavé Salamatian. Fast online packet classification with convolutional neural network (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021)

  18. Xinyi Zhang, Kavé Salamatian, Gaogang Xie. Baking the ruleset: A heat propagation relaxation to packet classification (IFIP Networking Conference, 2020)