Jialin Li

Jialin Li is the Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). They earned a PhD from the University of Washington under the advisement of Dan Ports and a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. Their research focuses on distributed systems and operating systems, particularly on co-designing systems with data center networks, data plane operating systems, and decentralized infrastructure.

• Research Interests: Distributed systems, network ordering, consensus algorithms, in-network processing, decentralized infrastructure, and programmable hardware.
• Awards: OSDI '14 Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, NSDI '15 Best Paper Award.
• Students: Mentors PostDocs (Chaoyi Ruan), Graduate Students (Inho Choi, Yunfan Li, Ziji Shi, etc.), and Undergraduate Students (Mohsen Ghasemi, Akshaye Shenoi, etc.).
• Service: Conference Organizer (APSys '25 Program Co-Chair), Technical Committee for EuroSys, SOSP, NSDI, and others.