Zhaowei is a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA CS Department, working with Prof. Songwu Lu. He received his Ph.D. degree from the same research group in 2022. He is broadly interested in system security and resilience, especially for IoT systems that run on 5G and next-generation wireless networks. Prior to UCLA, he got his BS degree (with honor) in CS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), under supervision of Prof. Xinbing Wang and Prof. Xiaofeng Gao.

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What's New

• Apr. 2023: Invited to serve on the IEEE INFOCOM '24 TPC.
• Apr. 2023: I'm serving as publicity co-chair of CNS '23. The conference will be held in Orlando, FL, USA during Oct 2-5, 2023. Please do consider submitting your work (Deadline: June 12).
• Apr. 2023: LDRP, extension of LRP, has beeny accepted by IEEE TMC.
• Dec. 2022: CellDAM, our solution for 5G data plane attack detection & mitigation will appear in NSDI '23.
• Nov. 2022: Our study on carrier aggregation is conditionally accepted in MobiCom '23.

Selected Publications (Complete list)

CellDAM: User-Space, Rootless Detection and Mitigation for 5G Data Plane

Zhaowei Tan, Jinghao Zhao, Boyan Ding, Songwu Lu
NSDI '23

SEED: A SIM-Based Solution to 5G Failures

Jinghao Zhao, Zhaowei Tan, Yifei Xu, Zhehui Zhang, Songwu Lu
SIGCOMM '22

Device-Based LTE Latency Reduction at the Application Layer

Zhaowei Tan, Jinghao Zhao, Yuanjie Li, Yifei Xu, Songwu Lu
NSDI '21
[Paper] [Website] [Slides] [Presentation] [Demo]

Data-Plane Signaling in Cellular IoT: Attacks and Defense

Zhaowei Tan, Boyan Ding, Jinghao Zhao, Yunqi Guo, Songwu Lu
MobiCom '21
[Paper] [1-min Teaser] [Slides]

Supporting Mobile VR in LTE Networks: How Close Are We?

Zhaowei Tan, Yuanjie Li, Qianru Li, Zhehui Zhang, Zhehan Li, Songwu Lu
SIGMETRICS '18
[Paper] [Poster] [Dataset]

Experience

Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Summer 2017 and 2018
Project: Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for cellular core in public cloud
Mentor: Dr. Yongguang Zhang and Dr. Bozidar Radunovic
Microsoft Research Special Projects (Now Azure for Operators (AFO) Research)

Senior Personnel and Co-Founder, MobIQ Technologies, 2017-2018
MobIQ offers the device-based, full-stack network analytics and optimization for IoT vendors and operators
Funded by NSF I-Corps and SBIR

Teaching

Teaching Fellow since 2019
CS 33: Introduction to Computer Organization -- Teaching Assistant, Fall 2018
CS 35L: Software Construction Laboratory -- TA-Instructor, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019
CS 118: Computer Network Fundamentals -- Teaching Assistant, Winter 2017, Spring 2022
CS 131: Programming Languages -- Teaching Assistant, Fall 2021, Winter 2022
CS 211: Network Protocol and Systems Software Design for Wireless and Mobile -- Guest Lecturer, Fall 2022

Professional Activities

TPC for IEEE INFOCOM '24
Publicity Co-Chair for IEEE CNS '23
Reviewer for IEEE TMC, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TIFS
Shadow PC Committee for EuroSys '23

Software

Flora: Flexible software-defined 4G LTE/5G system (Project leader)
LRP: Reducing mobile network latency at the application layer (Project leader)
MobileInsight: In-phone mobile network analytics (Main contributor; Leader for IoT development, latency analytics, and 5G data plane)
Sonica: Sonica: Software-defined Open NB-IoT Research Platform (Steering Member)

Honors

• Mobicom 2022 Best Community Paper Award Runner-Up
• Mobicom 2021 Student Travel Grant
• Summer Mentored Research Fellowship 2021
• NSDI 2021 Student Travel Grant
• SIGMETRICS 2018 Student Travel Grant
• NSF I-Corps Grant
• Mobicom 2017 Best Community Paper Award
• National Scholarship from Ministry of Education of PRC, three times (2013, 2014, 2015)
• Chun-Tsung Scholarship (Funded by Nobel Prize laureate T. D. Lee)