Sen Lin - Northwestern University

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I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Northwestern University. I work at Northwestern Networks Group under the supervision of Prof. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic. My research centers on cross-layer network traffic optimization, with an emphasis on enhancing end-user experience in media streaming and data center networks. I design and develop protocols and systems that aim to optimize network performance holistically.

News

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!

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Selected Papers

[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

DOI / Paper
[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

DOI / Paper / Slides / Code
[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

DOI / Paper / Demo Video

Eductaion

Northwestern University

Sep 2020 - Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University at Buffalo - The State University of New York

Aug 2018 - Jun 2020

M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

Yunnan University

Sep 2014 - Jul 2018

B.E. in Software Engineering

Contact

Email: sen.lin@u.northwestern.edu

Office:

2233 Tech Drive Mudd Room 3416 Evanston, IL 60208 View Map