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I am a PhD candidate in computer science in UC Berkeley's NetSys Lab, advised by Professor Scott Shenker. I work on computer systems.

You can reach me at zhangwen (at) cs (dot) berkeley (dot) edu.

I am on the academic job market for 2024–2025. Here are my application materials:

• CV.
• Research statement.
• Teaching statement.

Preprints

• Extracting Database Access-control Policies From Web Applications.
  Wen Zhang, Dev Bali, Jamison Kerney, Aurojit Panda, Scott Shenker.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11380, 2024.

Select Publications

• Access Control for Database Applications: Beyond Policy Enforcement.
  Wen Zhang, Aurojit Panda, Scott Shenker.
  HotOS '23 — Hot Topics in Operating Systems.
  [slides]
• Blockaid: Data Access Policy Enforcement for Web Applications.
  Wen Zhang, Eric Sheng, Michael Chang, Aurojit Panda, Mooly Sagiv, Scott Shenker.
  OSDI '22 — Operating Systems Design and Implementation.
  [talk] [slides] [tech report] [code]
• Persistent State Machines for Recoverable In-memory Storage Systems with NVRam.
  Wen Zhang, Scott Shenker, Irene Zhang.
  OSDI '20 — Operating Systems Design and Implementation.
  [talk] [slides] [code]
• Kappa: A Programming Framework for Serverless Computing.
  Wen Zhang, Vivian Fang, Aurojit Panda, Scott Shenker.
  SoCC '20 — Symposium on Cloud Computing.
  [talk] [slides] [code]
• Control Replication: Compiling Implicit Parallelism to Efficient SPMD with Logical Regions.
  Elliott Slaughter, Wonchan Lee, Sean Treichler, Wen Zhang, Michael Bauer, Galen Shipman, Patrick McCormick, Alex Aiken.
  SC '17 — High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
  [code]