Lin Zhong, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dept. of Computer Science (joint appointment)
Rice University, Houston, TX

Contact
6100 Main St. MS-380, Houston, TX 77005
lzhong AT rice DOT edu
Office: 3046 Duncan Hall; Calendar
Phone:713-348-4163  Fax: 713-348-6196

I received my B.S and M.S. from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. from Princeton University. I have been with Rice University since September 2005. I was a visiting researcher with Microsoft Research for the summer of 2011 and March to December 2012. At Rice, I lead the Efficient Computing Group to make computing, communication, and interfacing more efficient and effective. Our recent research focus has been on mobile & embedded systems. I am a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and of the best paper awards from ACM MobileHCI 2007, IEEE PerCom 2009, ACM MobiSys 2011, 2013 and 2014, and ACM ASPLOS 2014. I was a PC co-chair for MobiSys 2012, HotPower 2013, IPSN 2014, and APSys 2016. I recently received the Duncan Award from Rice University and the Rockstar Award from ACM SIGMOBILE. Both honor researchers with 10 years or less of experience.

My research interests lie in the boundary of hardware and software. In particular, I am interested in managing the ever growing complexity of computer systems given the more or less constant human intelligence.

Full CV

I am serving on the PCs of NSDI, WWW, and MobiSys. I am afraid that I cannot serve on more PCs for 2017.

I work with both graduate and undergraduate students. If you enjoy buidling systems and find our recent work interesting, email me with your CV for opportunities.

Recent Talks

• Toward continuous mobile vision (Invited talks at Dartmouth and Univ. of Washington)
• How to save 10 mW for free? (Invited talks at UCSB and Wayne State based on our ASPLOS 2015 paper)
• Many-antenna base stations are interesting systems (Keynote at All Things Cellular, August 2014)(Slides for the panel discussion)
• Applying three principles for efficiency in the (mobile) system stack (Invited talk at Micorosoft Research, July 2014)
• Sources of inspiration in mobile computing (for the SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award) (MobiSys 2014, Warning: 65 MB due to graphics).

Selected Recent Publications (Full list)

• Automated OS-level device runtime power management (ASPLOS 2015) (PDF)
• Rio: a system solution for sharing I/O between mobile systems (MobiSys 2014) (PDF, received Best Paper Award)
• K2: a mobile operating system for heterogeneous coherence domains (ASPLOS 2014) (PDF, received Best Paper Award)
• Energy characterization and optimization of image sensing toward continuous mobile vision (MobiSys 2013) (PDF, received Best Paper Award)
• Argos: practical base stations with many antennas (MobiCom 2012) (PDF)

Dangerous Opinions

• Tips about writing systems papers
• Finding your advisor at Rice
• The sciences of system building
• The Prophet Dilemma: a Challenge to Induction