The Network Mechanics Group

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Rice Hall


85 Engineer's Way

Charlottesville, VA 22903

Welcome! We are the Network Mechanics Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia.

We do research on computer networks and systems. This includes research in network monitoring as well as improving the performance, efficiency, reliability, privacy, and security of networked systems.

We analyze. We fix. We improve.
We are network mechanics.

news

Jul 25, 2025 The work on scalable video conferencing (Scallop) got accepted to SIGCOMM 2025! The ArXiv version is here.
Apr 17, 2025 Di Zhu passed his qualifying exam! Congratulations, Di! Now a proud Ph.D. candidate!
Oct 31, 2024 Prospective Students (Fall 2025): Our research group have spots for PhD students interested in doing research in systems and networking! APPLY HERE!
Oct 29, 2024 Di Zhu will present his ongoing work, “Automating Distributed In-network Classification with Runtime Programmability,” at the ACM CoNEXT 2024 Student Workshop in December 2024!
Oct 29, 2024 Di Zhu received the ACM CoNEXT 2024 travel grant! Congratulations to Di!