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 networking and distributed systems, where my current research is focused on programming models and resource management for in-network computing, machine learning inference, and cyber-physical systems. I am a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM.

Open position: I am looking for a paid research intern (~6 months) to work on P4 programmable networks. Please ping me if you are interested (starting your email subject with “[Internship]”).

News and events

03.12.2021: Two papers accepted to IEEE INFOCOM.
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 SenSys AIChallengeIoT 2021.
16.10.2021: Invited to serve on the PC for IEEE ICFEC 2022, ICCCN 2022, and IEEE/IFIP 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).
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!
20.02.2021: Slides for course “Advanced Computer Networks” 2020 publicly released here.
03.02.2021: Co-chairing ACM e-Energy WEEE 2021 with Falko Dressler (TU Berlin) and Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien).
07.01.2021: Invited to serve on the PC for IFIP Networking 2021 and ICCCN 2021.
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.

Recent highlights

[HotNets’21] Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Packet: Unified Programming for In-Network Computing
[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

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)
Rishikumar Radhakrishnan (master student, VU Amsterdam)
Hongzhong Yu (master student, VU Amsterdam)
Menno Vermeulen (master student, VU Amsterdam)
Nils Nedderhut (master student, TU Darmstadt)

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)
Marios Kanakis (master student, VU Amsterdam)
Bart de Haan (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

Program committee member of BSc Computer Science
Admission board member, MSc Computer Security

Conference program committee

2022: NOMS, ICFEC, ICCCN
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 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)

Awards and qualifications

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)
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

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