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

06.08.2022: Jellyfish—a real-time edge inference serving system accepted to RTSS 2022.
27.07.2022: HiTDL—a mobile edge system for deep learning inference accepted to IEEE TPDS.
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.
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.

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)

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)
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