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Shihan Lin
林士翰
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan
shihanl at umich.edu
lshzy137 at gmail.com
   
About Me

I have joined the University of Michigan as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow since 08/2025, working with Prof. Ang Chen.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from Duke University in 05/2025. At Duke, I worked with Prof. Xiaowei Yang on computer networks and distributed systems. I am also fortunate to work with other excellent researchers, including Prof. Bruce Maggs, Prof. Matthew Lentz, Prof. Danyang Zhuo, Prof. Tom Anderson (UW), and Prof. Ramesh Govindan (USC).

I graduated from Fudan University in 2019 with a B.S. in Computer Science. At Fudan, I worked with Prof. Yang Chen and Prof. Xin Wang on measurement and analysis of mobile networks in Mobile Systems and Networking Group.

Education
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA        08/2019 - 05/2025
   PhD in Computer Science
  Advisor: Xiaowei Yang
Fudan University, Shanghai, China        09/2015 - 06/2019
   Undergraduate in Computer Science, Honor Class, Denghui Scholar
  Advisor: Yang Chen
Experience
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA        08/2025 - Present
   Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computer Science and Engineering
  Advisor: Ang Chen
Google, Sunnyvale, CA, USA        05/2023 - 08/2023
   PhD Software Engineering Intern in SLEDGE Mapping and Egress SDN team
  Host: Austin Barket, David Zimmermann
Google, Durham, NC, USA        05/2022 - 08/2022
   PhD Software Engineering Intern in IPsec VPN team
  Host: Sergey Sorokin, Sanjay Khanna
Selected Publications
PreAcher: Secure and Practical Password Pre-Authentication by Content Delivery Networks
Shihan Lin, Suting Chen, Yunming Xiao, Yanqi Gu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Xiaowei Yang
Proceedings of NSDI 2025
Tiered Cloud Routing: Methodology, Latency, and Improvement
Shihan Lin, Yi Zhou, Xiao Zhang, Todd Arnold, Ramesh Govindan, Xiaowei Yang
Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2025
InviCloak: An End-to-End Approach to Privacy and Performance in Web Content Distribution
Shihan Lin, Rui Xin, Aayush Goel, Xiaowei Yang
Proceedings of CCS 2022
Remote Procedure Call as a Managed System Service
Jingrong Chen, Yongji Wu, Shihan Lin, Yechen Xu, Xinhao Kong, Thomas Anderson, Matthew Lentz, Xiaowei Yang, Danyang Zhuo
Proceedings of NSDI 2023
Services
Program Committee for CCS (2026), WWW (2026), CoNEXT (2026)
Reviewer for TIFS (2025), IoT Journal (2025), Computer Networks (2025), Information Processing and Management (2025), Network Magazine (2021)
Award
NSDI Travel Grant, 2025
ICDCS Travel Grant, 2024
SIGCOMM Travel Grant, 2023
Denghui Scholar of Fudan Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, 2020
National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program for College Students, 2019
First Prize, Fudan Collegiate Programming Contest, 2017
First Prize, National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces. 2014
Teaching
Instructor, Fall 24: Advanced Computer Networks (COMPSCI 514)
Teaching Assistant, Spring 22: Distributed Systems (COMPSCI 512)
Teaching Assistant, Fall 21: Cloud-Based Security (COMPSCI 590.8)
Teaching Assistant, Spring 21: Computer Network Architecture (COMPSCI 356)
Teaching Assistant, Fall 20: Advanced Computer Networks (COMPSCI 514)



Last Update: 09/2025