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Sen Lin

He/Him/His
林森

I am on the job market for research and engineering roles in industry (graduating Dec 2025)

I am an all-but-dissertation Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Northwestern University, advised by Prof. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic. My research focuses on the low-latency and cross-layer optimization of networking systems, with an emphasis on deployable designs under Internet constraints. I design protocols that bridge traditionally decoupled layers and build high-performance systems that preserve Internet semantics while adapting to evolving workloads. These systems are built with technologies such as DPDK, eBPF, P4, and QUIC, and are deployed across edge, serverless, and data center environments. My work has been published in top-tier venues including ICNP, TOCS, EuroSys, SoCC, and MobiCom.

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Selected Papers

  • [TOCS]
    Enabling Anonymous Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge
    Yunming Xiao, Yanqi Gu, Yibo Zhao, Sen Lin, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Just Accepted, June 2025
  • [ICNP'24]
    Optimizing Traffic in Public-Facing Data Centers Amid Internet Protocols
    Sen Lin, Jianfeng Wang, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Charleroi, Belgium, October 2024
  • [EuroSys'24]
    Snatch: Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge
    Yunming Xiao, Yibo Zhao, Sen Lin, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    The 19th European Conference on Computer Systems, Athens, Greece, April 2024
    DOI / Paper Best Student Paper Award
  • [SoCC'22]
    QFaaS: Accelerating and Securing Serverless Cloud Networks with QUIC
    Kaiyu Hou, Sen Lin, Yan Chen, Vinod Yegneswaran
    The 13th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, San Francisco, CA, November 2022
  • [MobiCom'20]
    Towards 3D Human Pose Construction Using WiFi
    Wenjun Jiang, Hongfei Xue, Chenglin Miao, Shiyang Wang, Sen Lin, Chong Tian, Srinivasan Murali, Haochen Hu, Zhi Sun, Lu Su
    The 26th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, London, UK, September 2020

Eductaion

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Northwestern University
Sep 2020 - Present
Ph.D. in Computer Science
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University at Buffalo - The State University of New York
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
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Yunnan University
Sep 2014 - Jul 2018
B.E. in Software Engineering

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