Shawn Shuoshuo Chen | Carnegie Mellon University

I am a third year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. I am co-advised by Prof. Peter Steenkiste and Prof. Srinivasan Seshan. My research interests include computer networks and systems. I design and build large-scale networked computers to sustain the performance scaling of computing in post Moore’s Law era. Most recently, I have been working on reconfigurable data center networks, optical networks and ML systems.

I am very fortunate to collaborate with Prof. Minlan Yu, Prof. Manya Ghobadi, Prof. Alex C. Snoeren, Srikanth Kandula, Ilias Marinos, Sadjad Fouladi.

Prior to CMU, I was a technical lead on Google’s Network Infrastructure team, where I built Google’s Jupiter fabric and its SDN controller Orion.

I received my masters degree in computer engineering from University of Virginia, and a bachelor in electrical engineering from Wuhan University.

Publications

Precise Data Center Traffic Engineering with Constrained Hardware Resources
Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Keqiang He, Rui Wang, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste
NSDI 2024
[abstract] [paper] [code]
Zero Buffer Optical Packet Switching Data Center Network
Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Weiyang Wang, Manya Ghobadi, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste
NSDI 2024 poster
[poster]
Time-division TCP for reconfigurable data center networks
Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Weiyang Wang, Christopher Canel, Srinivasan Seshan, Alex C. Snoeren, Peter Steenkiste
SIGCOMM 2022
[abstract] [paper] [code]
Orion: Google’s Software-Defined Networking Control Plane
Andrew D. Ferguson, Steve Gribble, Chi-Yao Hong, Charles Killian, Waqar Mohsin, Henrik Muehe, Joon Ong, Leon Poutievski, Arjun Singh, Lorenzo Vicisano, Richard Alimi, Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Mike Conley, Subhasree Mandal, Karthik Nagaraj, Kondapa Naidu Bollineni, Amr Sabaa, Shidong Zhang, Min Zhu, and Amin Vahdat
NSDI 2021
[abstract] [paper]
Advances in Reliable File-Stream Multicasting over Multi-Domain Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Yuanlong Tan, Shuoshuo Chen, Steve Emmerson, Yizhe Zhang, Malathi Veeraraghavan
ICCCN 2019
[abstract] [paper]
A Cross-Layer Multicast-Push Unicast-Pull (MPUP) Architecture for Reliable File-Stream Distribution
Shuoshuo Chen, Xiang Ji, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Steve Emmerson, Joseph Slezak, Steven G. Decker
COMPSAC 2016
[abstract] [paper]

Awards and Membership

NYU Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship [declined] (2020)
Silver Perfy Award, Google (2019)
Academic Excellence Award Nomination, University of Virginia (2016)
OpenHW Vivado HLS Contest Runner-up, Xilinx (2014)
Outstanding Undergraduate Capstone Project, Wuhan University (2014)
ACM Member/ACM@CMU Member

Service

Review - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Subreview - HotNets’23, NSDI’23, NSDI’22
Artifact evaluation committee - SIGCOMM’23, CoNEXT’23, OSDI/ATC’22

Fun Stuff

I like scuba diving and rock climbing.
I built a 4-node FPGA Bitcoin miner which costs more in power than its profit. :)