Jiaxin Lin

Jiaxin Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, affiliated with the Computer Systems Laboratory. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from UT Austin (2025), preceded by an M.S. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. from ShenYuan Honors College at Beihang University.

Her research focuses on co-designing software and hardware systems to enable high-performance data center communication, particularly through:

• Programmable network interface controllers (SmartNICs)
• Terabit network system stacks
• Cache/memory interconnects
• Compilers for in-network computing
• Chip-to-chip interconnects

Her work addresses challenges in portability across heterogeneous SmartNICs, demonstrated through the development of the Alkali compiler framework (NSDI '25). Key themes include hardware abstraction, data center scalability, and network-compute co-design.

Scientific Awards:

• Google Junior Faculty Award (2025)
• MIT EECS Rising Star (2024)
• Google Ph.D. Fellowship (2021)
• Meta Ph.D. Fellowship (2021)