Lin Wang's Home Page

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Vrije Universteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)

Email: lin [dot] wang [at] vu [dot] nl
Address: De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the HPDC group in the Computer Systems section of the Department of Computer Science at VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I am also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, Germany. I am generally interested in distributed systems and networking. Currently, I am working on data center in-network computing and distributed edge systems for machine learning.

I am the recipient of a Google Research Scholar Award and an Athene Young Investigator Award of TU Darmstadt. I am a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM.

News and Events

12.05.2022: Invited to serve on the PC for ACM SoCC 2022. Submit your best work on cloud computing!
15.04.2022: Project on collaborative intermittent computing funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
01.04.2022: Received a Google Research Scholar Award!
18.03.2022: Invited to serve on the PC for ACM EMDL@MobiSys 2022 and ACM ApPLIED@PODC 2022. Consider submitting your work!
11.03.2022: Vision paper on live video analytics accepted to ACM EuroMLSys@EuroSys 2022.
28.02.2022: Survey on ML for systems and networking accepted to ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR).
18.01.2022: Paper on autoscaling deep learning inference workloads accepted to RTAS 2022.
05.01.2022: Invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar on “Power and Energy-aware Computing on Heterogeneous Systems”.
16.12.2021: Graduate course “Advanced Computer Networks” finished, all material released here.
09.12.2021: Invited to talk at the SSIE Summer School at University of Padova, Italy.
09.12.2021: Invited to serve on the PC for ICDCS 2022.
03.12.2021: Two papers on edge container caching / admission control accepted to INFOCOM 2022.
24.11.2021: Gave a talk on edge AI systems at the EDL Winter School.
03.11.2021: Invited to serve as a Web Chair for ACM SIGCOMM 2022.
19.10.2021: Paper on time-sensitive video stream analytics accepted to ACM AIChallengeIoT@SenSys 2021.
16.10.2021: Invited to serve on the PC for ICFEC 2022, ICCCN 2022, and NOMS 2022.
09.10.2021: Invited lecture at Embedded Systems Week 2021.
15.09.2021: Invited talk at NetSys 2021 “Hot Topics in Distributed Systems”.
20.08.2021: Paper on unified programming for in-network computing accepted to ACM HotNets.
29.06.2021: Project on network configuration synthesis funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Awards and Qualifications

2022: Google Research Scholar Award
2021: IEEE Senior Member
2019: University Teaching Qualification (BKO in Dutch)
2018: Athene Young Investigator Award, TU Darmstadt
2018: Exemplary Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
2016: Best Paper Award, IEEE ICNP Workshop
2014: Peisu Xia Award (top honor), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS

Current Students

Vinod Nigade (PhD student, VU Amsterdam), co-advised with Henri Bal
Kamran Razavi (PhD student, TU Darmstadt)
Gaosheng Liu (PhD student, VU Amsterdam)
George Karlos (PhD student, VU Amsterdam)
Guilherme Henrique (PhD student, VU Amsterdam), co-advised with Henri Bal
Hongzhong Yu (master student, VU Amsterdam)
Menno Vermeulen (master student, VU Amsterdam)
Lucas de Geus (master student, VU Amsterdam, jointly with Deloitte)
Bojana Arsovska (master student, VU Amsterdam, jointly with Adyen)

Former Students

Marcel Blöcher (PhD w/ summa cum laude, TU Darmstadt), co-advised with Patrick Eugster
Shutong Chen (visiting PhD student, HUST)
Ramon Winder (master student, VU Amsterdam): publication at ACM AIChallengeIoT@SenSys 2021
Marios Kanakis (master student, VU Amsterdam): publication at ACM Computing Surveys
Bart de Haan (master student, VU Amsterdam)
Rishikumar Radhakrishnan (master student, VU Amsterdam)

Teaching

Advanced Computer Networks (X_405082): 2020, 2021
Advanced Network Programming (XB_0048): 2020, 2021
Introduction to Computer Science (X_401087): 2019, 2020, 2021

Academic Services

Departmental Committee

Coordinator of MSc Computer Science track Internet and Web Technology
Program committee member of BSc Computer Science
Admission board member, MSc Computer Security

Conference Program Committee

2022: SoCC, ICDCS, NOMS, CloudNet, ICFEC, ICCCN, GLOBECOM, EMDL@MobiSys, ApPLIED@PODC
2021: IFIP Networking, ICFEC, ICC, IM, ICCCN, ICPADS, CloudNet
2020: ICFEC, NOMS, ICCCN, ICC, IFIP Networking, WEEE@e-Energy, AIChallengeIoT@SenSys
2019: HotSALSA@INFOCOM (TPC Co-Chair), ECN (Co-Chair), EdgeSys, IM, ISPDC, Euro-Par, AIChallengeIoT@SenSys
2018: ECN (Co-Chair), DS-RT, HotPOST, ICCCN, ICC, NOMS
2017: HotPOST, DS-RT, INFOCOM (external)
2016: CloudCom (Chair for PhD Consortium)
2015: PODC (external), SPAA (external)
2014: INFOCOM (external)

Editorial Board

2020: guest editor, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
2018: guest editor, CCF Transactions on Networking

Journal Reviewer (Selected)

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Network Magazine

Funding Proposal Referee

German Research Foundation (DFG)
Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
Hong Kong Research Grants Council

Short Bio

During July 2016 - November 2018, I worked as an area head and an Athene Young Investigator at TU Darmstadt, Germany. Before that, I had a brief stay as a research associate at SnT Luxembourg. I obtained my PhD in computer science with distinction from the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). During Sep 2012 - Jan 2014, I was a visiting researcher at IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain.

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” – Richard P. Feynman