Chris (Zhizhou) Zhang

Chris (Zhizhou) Zhang

Software Engineer at Uber

Chris (Zhizhou) Zhang

I am Chris (Zhizhou) Zhang, 张之洲, a software engineer on Uber's Programming Systems team. My work sits at the intersection of programming systems, compilers, operating systems, microservices, and ML-assisted program repair.

Publications CV Google Scholar

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara, where I was advised by Prof. Tim Sherwood at ArchLab and closely collaborated with Prof. Jonathan Balkind. Before that, I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester, where I worked with Prof. Chen Ding.

Current Work

Programming systems Tools and runtime techniques for making real-world software faster, safer, and easier to debug.
ML-assisted program repair Automated fixes for data races, resource leaks, and other production software defects.
Microservices Performance, reliability, and error analysis for large-scale service architectures.

Engineering

FixrLeak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI

Combining AST analysis with generative AI to detect and repair resource leaks across Uber's Java codebase.

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Automating Efficiency of Go Programs with Profile-Guided Optimizations

Deploying continuous profile-guided optimization for Go services while keeping production build times practical.

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CRISP: Critical Path Analysis for Microservice Architectures

Finding and visualizing the services that contribute most to end-to-end latency in complex distributed traces.

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Selected Publications

Outside Work

In my spare time, I enjoy hiking and playing violin.