I’m Jiaxin Lin, I am joining the ECE department at Cornell University in Fall 2025 as an assistant professor.

I am currently a CS PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. I am part of the University of Texas Networked Systems (UTNS) Lab. I am broadly interested networked systems, including in programmable network devices, next-generation interconnects, and systems for cloud computing.

I was a recipient of Google Systems Junior Faculty Award, 2024 MIT EECS Rising Star, 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellowship and 2021 Meta Ph.D. Fellowship.

📧 jxlin AT utexas.edu

📌I am actively looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students in CS or ECE who are interested in networking, systems, architecture, or compilers. If you are interested in any of these areas, please reach out via email!

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Current Research Directions

Publications

• Portable and High-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali Link PDF Artifact Slides

  Jiaxin Lin*, Zhiyuan Guo*, Mihir Shah, Tao Ji, Yiying Zhang, Daehyeok Kim, Aditya Akella
  The 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'25)

• Balancing SDN Control Plane Availability and Traffic Engineering Efficiency in Data Centers Link PDF

  Brian Chang, Keqiang He, Shawn Chen, Jiaxin Lin, Mingyang Zhang, Wenfei Wu, Aditya Akella
  32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'24)

• Ringleader: Efficiently Offloading Intra-Server Orchestration to NICs Link PDF Artifact

  Jiaxin Lin, Adney Cardoza, Tarannum Khan, Yeonju Ro, Brent Stephens, Hassan Wassel, Aditya Akella
  20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'23)

• Towards Accelerating Data Intensive Application's Shuffle Process Using SmartNICs Link PDF

  Jiaxin Lin, Tao Ji, Xiangpeng Hao, Hokeun Cha, Yanfang Le, Xiangyao Yu, Aditya Akella
  ACM SIGMETRICS 2023 (SIGMETRICS'23)

• LogNIC: A High-Level Performance Model for SmartNICs Link PDF

  Zerui Guo, Jiaxin Lin, Yuebin Bai, Daehyeok Kim, Michael Swift, Aditya Akella, Ming Liu
  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'23)

• PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks Link PDF Artifact

  Jiaxin Lin, Kiran Patel, Brent Stephens, Anirudh Sivaraman, Aditya Akella
  14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'20)

• DLBooster: Boosting End-to-End Deep Learning Workflow with Offloading Data Preprocessing Pipelines Link PDF

  Yang Cheng, Dan Li, Zhiyuan Guo, BinYao Jiang, Jiaxin Lin, Xi Fan, Jinkun Geng, Xinyi Yu, Wei Bai, Lei Qu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Jianping Wu
  48th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2019)

• Bridging the Gap of Lane Detection Performance Between Different Datasets: Unified Viewpoint Transformation Link PDF

  Tuopu Wen, Diange Yang, Kun Jiang, Chunlei Yu, Jiaxin Lin, Benny Wijaya, Xinyu Jiao
  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Work Experience

Advanced Topics in Computer Networks (CS395T), UT Austin

Teaching Assistant2024 Fall

Google, System Research Group (SRG)

Research Intern2023 - 2024

Google, Network Infrastructure Team

Research Intern2021 Summer and 2022 Summer

UT Austin, Internet and Systems Research Group

Research AssistantSep 2019 - Current

MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia), Network Research Group

Research InternSep 2018 - Jun 2019

Tsinghua University, Automatic Driving Laboratory

Research AssistantApr 2018 - Sep 2018

Beihang University, Computer Architecture

Teaching AssistantJun 2017 - Feb 2018

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