About
I'm currently a 5th-year PhD student in Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace, Tsinghua University, supervised by Prof. Mingwei Xu in Routing Group. I have received my B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University. I have received four school scholarships.
I'm currently visiting Department of Information Technology at Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt in Austria, advised by Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Christian Timmerer and Priv.-Doz. Farzad Tashtarian.
Contact: bobankhshen@gmail.com / syx@ieee.org
Research Interests
- Congestion Control Algorithms
- Mortise[NSDI'26], Rattan[ATC'26], TPCCA[SIGCOMM'21 POSTER]
- Real-Time Communications (RTC)
- AFR[NSDI'23]
- Multimedia Streaming
- PiTree[ToN'21]
Recent Publication Highlights
- Rattan: An Extensible and Scalable Modular Internet Path Emulator. ACM SIGOPS ATC 2026.
- Mortise: Auto-tuning Congestion Control to Optimize QoE via Network-Aware Parameter Optimization. USENIX NSDI 2026.
- Enabling High Quality Real-Time Communications with Adaptive Frame-Rate. USENIX NSDI 2023.
- Quantifying the Transient Performance of Congestion Control Algorithms. ACM SIGCOMM 2021 POSTER.
- Practically Deploying Heavyweight Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms With Teacher-Student Learning. IEEE/ACM ToN 2021.
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