Xin Jin

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
(Starting Fall 2017)

Email: xinjin (at) cs (dot) jhu (dot) edu
[Bio] [CV]

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University starting in Fall 2017. I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the AMPLab at UC Berkeley, working with Professor Ion Stoica. I received my PhD in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University in June 2016, advised by Professor Jennifer Rexford. I am a Princeton Honorific Fellow and a Siebel Scholar.

I am looking for self-motivated students to work with me at Hopkins. Please apply here and mention me in your application materials. Also feel free to drop me an email with your CV.

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Research

I work in computer networking and distributed systems. My recent research focuses on software-defined networking, cloud computing and big data.

• (New) "Faster than faster" big data systems
• Control systems for software-defined networking
  • Network measurement with sketches [SketchVisor, SIGCOMM'17]
  • Managing big data transfers on optical WAN [Owan, SIGCOMM'16] [Analysis, INFOCOM'17]
  • Controller composition [CoVisor, NSDI'15]
  • Fast network update [Dionysus, SIGCOMM'14]
  • Policy enforcement for cellular networks [SoftCell, CoNEXT'13]
• Networking and scheduling for data centers
  • Job scheduling and power provisioning [Ampere, EuroSys'16]
  • Optical data center networks [DFabric, OFC'16]
  • Scalable traffic engineering [EnsembleRouting, INFOCOM'13]
  • Secure software switching [VirtualSwitching, HotICE'12]