
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 TU Darmstadt, Germany. I am generally interested in distributed systems and networking. Currently, my research is focused 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.
At VU Amsterdam, I am the coordinator of the MSc Computer Science track Internet and Web Technology and a member of the program committee for BSc Computer Science.
I am always looking for motivated students to join my research projects. If you are curious about how to build next-generation data centers and how to deploy modern ML-powered applications on them efficiently, I will have something to offer you, as a bachelor project, a master thesis project, or a stand-alone research project.
News and Events
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
- Lucas de Geus (master student, VU Amsterdam, jointly with Deloitte)
- 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)
- Menno Vermeulen (master student, VU Amsterdam)
- Hongzhong Yu (master student, VU Amsterdam)
Teaching
- Advanced Computer Networks (X_405082): 2020, 2021, 2022
- Advanced Network Programming (XB_0048): 2020, 2021, 2022
- Introduction to Computer Science (X_401087): 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Academic Services
Conference Program Committee
- 2022: SoCC, ICDCS, CloudNet, ICFEC, ICCCN, EMDL@MobiSys, ApPLIED@PODC
- 2021: IFIP Networking, ICFEC, IM, ICCCN, ICPADS, CloudNet
- 2020: ICFEC, NOMS, ICCCN, IFIP Networking, WEEE@e-Energy (Co-Chair), AIChallengeIoT@SenSys
- 2019: HotSALSA@INFOCOM (TPC Co-Chair), ECN (Co-Chair), EdgeSys@EuroSys, ISPDC, 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)
Funding Proposal Referee
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
- Hong Kong Research Grants Council
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
Short Bio
During July 2016 - November 2018, I worked as an area head and a research group leader 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
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