Jiaxin Lin | Cornell Engineering

Biography

Jiaxin Lin is an assistant professor in Cornell Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Computer Systems Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from UT Austin in 2025. Her research interests span computer systems and networks. She is widely recognized for her influential work on programmable NICs, for which she received the Google and Meta Ph.D. Fellowships in computer networking. In 2024, she was selected as an MIT EECS Rising Star, and in 2025, she received the Google Junior Faculty Award. Her overarching goal is to design innovative software and hardware systems that fully leverage the semantics and capabilities of advanced network devices and interconnects to enable high-performance communication in data centers.

Research Interests

Professor Lin’s research lies at the intersection of computer networks, computer architecture, and computer systems, with a special focus on co-designing software and hardware to enable high-performance data center communications.

Programmable network devices
System stacks and devices for terabit networks
Cache, memory, and chip-to-chip interconnects
Compilers for in-network computing

Teaching Interests

Computer Networks
Computer Systems
Computer Architecture

Select Publications

Lin, Jiaxin, et al. Enabling Portable and High-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali. 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 25). 2025
Lin, Jiaxin, et al. RingLeader: Efficiently offloading Intra-Server orchestration to NICs. 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23). 2023.
Lin, Jiaxin, et al. PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks. 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 20). 2020.
Lin, Jiaxin, et al. Towards Accelerating Data Intensive Applications’ Shuffle Process Using SmartNICs. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems 7.2 (2023): 1-23.

Google Scholar

Select Awards and Honors

Junior Faculty Award, Google 2025
EECS Rising Stars, MIT 2024
Ph.D. Fellowship, Google 2021
Ph.D. Fellowship, Meta 2021

Education

Ph.D., computer science, University of Texas at Austin
M.S., computer science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., computer science, ShenYuan Honors College at Beihang University