Xin Jin

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University

Email: xinjin (at) cs (dot) jhu (dot) edu

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. I work in the areas of computer networks and distributed systems. Before joining Hopkins, I spent a year in the AMPLab/RISELab 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 networks and distributed systems, with a focus on programmable switches, software-defined networking (SDN), cloud computing, and big data systems.

• NetX: Co-design networks and distributed systems with programmable switches
  • In-network chain replication for coordination [NetChain, NSDI'18]
  • In-network caching for key-value storage [NetCache, SOSP'17]
• Self-Running Networks: Make networks run by themselves with SDN and machine learning
  • Measurement: Network traffic analytics with sketches [SketchVisor, SIGCOMM'17]
  • Decision: Managing big data transfers on optical WANs [Owan, SIGCOMM'16]
  • Decision: Controller composition [CoVisor, NSDI'15]
  • Actuation: Fast network update [Dionysus, SIGCOMM'14]

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Students

• Zhihao Bai
• Hang Zhu