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 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, where my current research is focused on programming models and resource management for edge AI inference serving, in-network computing, and cyber-physical systems.

News

[29.06.2021] Project on network configuration synthesis funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
[29.06.2021] Invited to talk at the Embedded Systems Week education track.
[17.06.2021] New master thesis project in collaboration with IMEC open. Please check here.
[25.05.2021] Paper on edge demand response mechanism design accepted to IEEE TPDS.
[22.05.2021] Co-organizing the EDL Edge Workshop. Join us if you are interested in edge computing!
[01.05.2021] Vision paper on sustainable cyber-physical systems accepted to WEEE 2021.
[20.02.2021] Slides for course “Advanced Computer Networks” 2020 publicly released here.
[03.02.2021] Co-chairing WEEE@ACM e-Energy 2021 with Falko Dressler (TU Berlin) and Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien).
[07.01.2021] Invited to serve on the PC for IFIP Networking and ICCCN.
[07.12.2020] Keynote at MobiQuitous 2020 on edge computing for ubiquitous/mobile systems.
[27.11.2020] DFG SFB MAKI Phase 3 funded. Looking forward to collaborations in the next 4 years.
[18.11.2020] Paper on resource management for in-network computing accepted to ACM ASPLOS 2021.
[25.08.2020] Paper on edge service placement accepted to IEEE/ACM TON.
[20.08.2020] Clownfish accepted to ACM/IEEE SEC 2020.
[23.07.2020] Invited to serve as grant proposal referee for the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Recent Highlights

[TPDS’21] EdgeDR: An Online Mechanism Design for Demand Response in Edge Clouds
[ASPLOS’21] Switches for HIRE: Resource Scheduling for Data Center In-Network Computing
[TON’21] Service Placement for Collaborative Edge Applications
[SEC’20] Clownfish: Edge and Cloud Symbiosis for Video Stream Analytics
[HotEdge’20] Sharing and Caring of Data at the Edge
[CACM’20] Street Lamps as a Platform

Awards

2019: University Teaching Qualification (BKO in Dutch)
2018: Athene Young Investigator Award, TU Darmstadt
2018: Exemplary Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
2017: Significant Reviewer, Future Generation Computer Systems
2016: Best Paper Award, IEEE ICNP Workshop
2014: Peisu Xia Award (top honor), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS

Academic Services

Conference PC

2021: IFIP Networking, ICFEC, ICC, IM, ICCCN, ICPADS
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 Ph.D. 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

IEEE JSAC, IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TCOM, IEEE TNSM, IEEE COMMAG, JPDC, etc.

Short Bio

During Jul 2016 - Nov 2018, I worked as 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