Introduction

Hi there! I’m a third year PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I am lucky enough to be advised by Ben Berg.

I’m most interested in:

  • Response Time Analysis on Multiserver/Multiresource Jobs Scheduling
  • Joint Scheduling-Caching Effects on Modern Database Systems (i.e. ClickHouse)
  • Scheduling Serverless Workloads (i.e. Firecracker, Neon, etc.)

Outside of work, you may find me playing the piano, exploring eateries, or playing rhythm games.

Publications

  • Improving Nonpreemptive Multiserver Job Scheduling with Quickswap
    Zhongrui Chen, Adityo Anggraito, Diletta Olliaro, Andrea Marin, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Benjamin Berg, Isaac Grosof. Accepted to IFIP Performance 25’. To be appeared in PEVA.
    [PDF]

  • Improving Multiresource Job Scheduling with Markovian Service Rate Policies
    Zhongrui Chen, Isaac Grosof, Benjamin Berg. SIGMETRICS 25’. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS) 2025.
    [Abstract] [Full Paper] [Video] [ArXiv] [Code]

  • Simple Policies for Multiresource Job Scheduling
    Zhongrui Chen, Isaac Grosof, Benjamin Berg. MAMA 24’. ACM Performance Evaluation Review 2024.
    [ACM DL] [PDF]

Talks

  • Improving Multiresource Job Scheduling with Markovian Service Rate Policies
    [slides] ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 Stony Brook, NY, United States.
  • A New Class of Policies for Multiresource Job Scheduling
    [slides] INFORMS APS 2025, Atlanta, GA, United States
    [slides] Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.
  • Simple Policies for Multiresource Job Scheduling
    [slides] INFORMS 2024, Seattle, WA, United States
    [slides] MAMA 2024, Venice, Italy

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