I am on the job market for research and engineering roles in industry (graduating Dec 2025)
I am a Ph.D. (defended) 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.
My name “Sen Lin” (森林) literally means forest in Chinese—a recursion: Lin in a Lin.
Coincidentally, “Sen” also means “dream” in Polish—an accidental cross-cultural poem.
Born with a rare congenital condition that makes my joints a bit stubborn—perhaps why I enjoy debugging stubborn systems.
