Anlan Zhang

I am a Research Scientist/Engineer at Adobe Research. I received Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California (USC), where I was advised by Prof. Feng Qian. Prior to USC, I spent the first four years of my Ph.D. at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMN) and received a M.S. degree in Computer Science. I got my B.E. degree from Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing in 2019.

I am broadly interested in Multimedia Systems, ML for Systems, Mobile Systems, and Networking. My Ph.D. research focuses on designing and optimizing emerging networked multimedia systems for, including but not limited to, immersive content (360 Video, AR/VR/MR, Volumetric Video) delivery, video conferencing, and image co-editing.

Email: anlanzha at usc dot edu

You can find my CV here.

News

May 27, 2025	I joined Adobe Research as a full-time Research Scientist/Engineer.
Mar 10, 2025	I passed my Ph.D. dissertation oral defense at USC.
Mar 02, 2025	Paper on low-latency image live co-editing was accepted at NOSSDAV’25.
Feb 11, 2025	Paper on volumetric streaming enhanced by LUT-based super-resolution led by Chendong was accepted at MLSys’25.
Oct 30, 2024	Our paper “An In-depth Study of Bandwidth Allocation across Media Sources in Video Conferencing” led by Zejun received the Best Student Paper Award (2 out of 4385 submissions) at ACM Multimedia 2024.
Sep 16, 2024	Paper on collaborative vehicular perception led by Ruiyang was accepted at SenSys’24.
Jul 15, 2024	Paper on studying bandwidth allocation across media sources in video conferencing led by Zejun was accepted at MM’24 and was further selected as an Oral presentation (174 / 4385 = 3.97%).
Jun 26, 2024	I was invited to serve on the TPC for the 2nd ACM Workshop on Mobile Immersive Computing, Networking, and Systems (ImmerCom’24), which will be held in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2024 in Washington, D.C., USA.
May 08, 2024	I passed my Ph.D. qualifying exam at USC.
May 03, 2024	Paper on dissecting carrier aggregation in 5G networks led by Wei was accepted at SIGCOMM’24.

Selected Publications

MLSys’25

VoLUT: Efficient Volumetric Streaming Enhanced by LUT-based Super-resolution

Chendong Wang , Anlan Zhang, Yifan Yang , Lili Qiu , Yuqing Yang , Xinyang Jiang , Feng Qian, and Suman Banerjee

Proceedings of Machine Learning and Systems, 2025

arXiv Bib PDF Slides

@article{wang2025volut,
  title = {VoLUT: Efficient Volumetric Streaming Enhanced by LUT-based Super-resolution},
  author = {Wang, Chendong and Zhang, Anlan and Yang, Yifan and Qiu, Lili and Yang, Yuqing and Jiang, Xinyang and Qian, Feng and Banerjee, Suman},
  journal = {Proceedings of Machine Learning and Systems},
  volume = {7},
  year = {2025}
}

NOSSDAV’25

Alice: Low-latency Image Live Co-editing via Adaptation

Anlan Zhang, Stefano Petrangeli, Haoliang Wang, Yu Shen, and Feng Qian

In Proceedings of the 35th edition of the Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video , 2025

Bib PDF Slides

@inproceedings{zhang2025alice,
  title = {Alice: Low-latency Image Live Co-editing via Adaptation},
  author = {Zhang, Anlan and Petrangeli, Stefano and Wang, Haoliang and Shen, Yu and Qian, Feng},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th edition of the Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video},
  year = {2025}
}

SenSys’24

Boosting Collaborative Vehicular Perception on the Edge with Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication

Ruiyang Zhu , Xiao Zhu , Anlan Zhang, Xumiao Zhang, Jiachen Sun, Feng Qian, Hang Qiu, Z Morley Mao, and Myungjin Lee

In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems , 2024

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{zhu2024boosting,
  title = {Boosting Collaborative Vehicular Perception on the Edge with Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication},
  author = {Zhu, Ruiyang and Zhu, Xiao and Zhang, Anlan and Zhang, Xumiao and Sun, Jiachen and Qian, Feng and Qiu, Hang and Mao, Z Morley and Lee, Myungjin},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems},
  pages = {141--154},
  year = {2024}
}

MM’24

An In-depth Study of Bandwidth Allocation across Media Sources in Video Conferencing

Zejun Zhang , Xiao Zhu , Anlan Zhang, and Feng Qian

In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (Oral Presentation) , 2024

Best Student Paper Award Bib PDF Slides

Best Student Paper Award (2 out of 4385 submissions)

@inproceedings{zhang2024depth,
  title = {An In-depth Study of Bandwidth Allocation across Media Sources in Video Conferencing},
  author = {Zhang, Zejun and Zhu, Xiao and Zhang, Anlan and Qian, Feng},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia <span style="color:red">(Oral Presentation)</span>},
  pages = {7696--7704},
  year = {2024}
}

NSDI’24

Habitus: Boosting Mobile Immersive Content Delivery through Full-body Pose Tracking and Multipath Networking

Anlan Zhang , Chendong Wang , Yuming Hu , Ahmad Hassan , Zejun Zhang , Bo Han, Feng Qian , and Shichang Xu

In 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24) , 2024

Bib PDF TALK Slides

@inproceedings{zhang2024habitus,
  title = {Habitus: Boosting Mobile Immersive Content Delivery through Full-body Pose Tracking and Multipath Networking},
  author = {Zhang, Anlan and Wang, Chendong and Hu, Yuming and Hassan, Ahmad and Zhang, Zejun and Han, Bo and Qian, Feng and Xu, Shichang},
  booktitle = {21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24)},
  pages = {1677--1695},
  year = {2024}
}

NSDI’22

YuZu: Neural-enhanced Volumetric Video Streaming

Anlan Zhang , Chendong Wang , Bo Han, and Feng Qian

In 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 22) , 2022

Bib PDF TALK Slides

@inproceedings{zhang2022yuzu,
  title = {YuZu: Neural-enhanced Volumetric Video Streaming},
  author = {Zhang, Anlan and Wang, Chendong and Han, Bo and Qian, Feng},
  booktitle = {19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 22)},
  pages = {137--154},
  year = {2022}
}

MobiCom’21

Emp: Edge-assisted Multi-vehicle Perception

Xumiao Zhang , Anlan Zhang, Jiachen Sun, Xiao Zhu, Y Ethan Guo , Feng Qian, and Z Morley Mao

In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking , 2021

Bib PDF TALK Slides

@inproceedings{zhang2021emp,
  title = {Emp: Edge-assisted Multi-vehicle Perception},
  author = {Zhang, Xumiao and Zhang, Anlan and Sun, Jiachen and Zhu, Xiao and Guo, Y Ethan and Qian, Feng and Mao, Z Morley},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking},
  pages = {545--558},
  year = {2021}
}

HotMobile’21

Efficient Volumetric Video Streaming through Super Resolution

Anlan Zhang , Chendong Wang , Bo Han, and Feng Qian

In Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications , 2021

Bib PDF TALK Slides

@inproceedings{zhang2021efficient,
  title = {Efficient Volumetric Video Streaming through Super Resolution},
  author = {Zhang, Anlan and Wang, Chendong and Han, Bo and Qian, Feng},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications},
  pages = {106--111},
  year = {2021}
}

MobiSys’20

Poster: Mobile Volumetric Video Streaming Enhanced by Super Resolution

Anlan Zhang , Chendong Wang , Xing Liu , Bo Han, and Feng Qian

In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services , 2020

Bib PDF TALK Slides

@inproceedings{zhang2020mobile,
  title = {Poster: Mobile Volumetric Video Streaming Enhanced by Super Resolution},
  author = {Zhang, Anlan and Wang, Chendong and Liu, Xing and Han, Bo and Qian, Feng},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services},
  pages = {462--463},
  year = {2020}
}