Linh Thi Xuan Phan is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania , affiliated with the Computer and Information Science Department and the School of Engineering and Applied Science . She is a co-director of the MSE in Data Science (DATS) program and a member of the PRECISE Center and the Distributed Systems Lab . Her research focuses on real-time/Embedded Systems , cyber-physical systems , distributed systems , and security . She develops theoretical foundations and systems techniques for building cost-effective large-scale systems with provable safety, fault tolerance, security, and real-time performance. Key projects include bounded-time recovery mechanisms for cyber-physical systems, scalable resource allocation for modern hardware, and defensive architectures for data centers. Recent publications highlight trends in probabilistic resource usage learning , real-time intrusion detection , and fault tolerance strategies for multi-robot systems and aerial vehicles. Her work has received awards at conferences like RAGE , RTAS , and ICRA . Scientific Awards : 2023: Best Paper, RAGE 2020: Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching 2018: NSF CAREER Award 2018: Outstanding Paper, RTAS 2017: ACM Future of Computing Academy PhD students advised include Robert Gifford , Karan Newatia , Yifan Cai , Abby Eisenklam , and graduated students like Yang Li , Jaewoo Lee , and Meng Xu . She has served on program committees for RTSS , EMSOFT , and DATE , and held leadership roles in ACM SIGBED and IEEE TCRTS .







