I am on the job market for research and engineering roles in industry. (Resume)

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University, advised by Prof. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic. My work focuses on building deployable, low-latency networking systems for the public Internet at scale, leveraging cross-layer optimization. My experience spans kernel networking, user-space datapaths, and programmable network hardware. My publications include ICNP, TOCS, EuroSys, SoCC, and MobiCom.

News

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  • Dec 2025
    I was selected for the Disability:IN’s 2026 NextGen Leaders Program.
  • Oct 2025
    I just defended my PhD dissertation — one small step in networking research, one giant leap for my life!
  • Oct 2025
    I have been awarded Student Travel Grant from ACM SIGMM to attend and present our work at MMAsia’25. Looking forward to visiting Malaysia!
  • Oct 2025
    Our paper on optimizing realtime interactive streaming has been accepted to MMAsia’25.
  • Jun 2025
    An extended version of Snatch has been accepted by ACM TOCS.
  • May 2025
    I passed my PhD prospectus. ABD now!
  • Feb 2025
    I am elected to attend 2025 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women & Grad Cohort for IDEALS. Looking forward to visiting Denver!

Selected Papers

Leveraging Cross-Directional Dependency in Realtime Interactive Streaming

Sen Lin, Andre Chen, Kevin Zhikai Chen, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
MMAsia'25 • December 2025
DOI Paper Code (RISE) Code (QUIC)

Enabling Anonymous Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge

Yunming Xiao, Yanqi Gu, Yibo Zhao, Sen Lin, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
TOCS • November 2025
DOI Paper

Optimizing Traffic in Public-Facing Data Centers Amid Internet Protocols

Sen Lin, Jianfeng Wang, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
ICNP'24 • October 2024
DOI Paper Code

Snatch: Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge

Yunming Xiao, Yibo Zhao, Sen Lin, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
EuroSys'24 • April 2024 • 🏆 Best Student Paper Award
DOI Paper

QFaaS: Accelerating and Securing Serverless Cloud Networks with QUIC

Kaiyu Hou, Sen Lin, Yan Chen, Vinod Yegneswaran
SoCC'22 • November 2022
DOI Paper Slides Code

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
MobiCom'20 • September 2020
DOI Paper Demo Video

Education

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Northwestern University

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Sep 2020 - Dec 2025
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University at Buffalo - The State University of New York

M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
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Yunnan University

B.E. in Software Engineering
Sep 2014 - Jul 2018

Fun Facts

  • My name, written in Western name order (Sen Lin), literally means “forest” (森林) in Chinese.
  • In Polish, “sen” means “dream.”
  • Born with a rare condition that makes my joints stubborn, so I debug stubborn systems.