• Bio

    Xin Wang received the B.S. degree and the M.S. degree from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1994 and 1997 respectively, in Information Theory and Communications. He received the Ph.D. degree from Shizuoka University, Japan in 2002, in Computer Science. Since 2002, he has been with the School of Computer Science at Fudan University, where he is currently a full professor. In 1995 and 1998, he was working on China’s pioneering telecom-level video conferencing systems and DVB-S systems with Huawei Inc. He is a distinguished member of CCF and member of IEEE.
    (Email: xinw#fudan.edu.cn (please replace # with @))

  • Research

    He is leading the Self-Organizing Network and Information Coding Lab (SONIC), Fudan University. Recently he focus on quality of network service, next-generation network architecture, mobile Internet and network coding. His research interest include:

    • SDN: Performance, Scalability, and Applications
    • Storage systems: Data Repair based on Analysis and Coding
    • Novel router structure and routing technique with Computing and Storage
    • High creditability networking, architecture and service models
    • Network quality monitoring
    • Novel applications in mobile Internet (Platform: Android, iOS)
    • Topology, routing and TCP performance in mobile ad-hoc networks
    • IPv6 home-networking
  • Publications

    • Sicheng Luo, Hui Xu, Yanxiang Bi, Xin Wang, Yangfan Zhou. “Boosting Symbolic Execution via Constraint Solving Time Prediction,” Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, July 11th,2021.
    • Ying Zheng, Haoyu Chen, Qingyang Duan, Lixiang Lin, Yiyang Shao, Wei Wang, Xin Wang, Yuedong Xu. “Leveraging Domain Knowledge for Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning in Networking,” in IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 26th,2021.
    • Shengnan Wu, Yangfan Zhou, Xin Wang. “Exploring User Experience of Automatic Documentation Tools,” in Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 8th,2021.
    • Qinge Xie, Tiancheng Guo, Yang Chen, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Ben Y. Zhao. “Deep Graph Convolutional Networks for Incident-Driven Traffic Speed Prediction,” in the Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, October 19th,2020.
    • Jiaojiao Fu, Yangfan Zhou, Xin Wang.Information Summary for Chronic Disease Treatment: A Pediatric Hospital Case in China,” in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 14th,2020.
    • Jiayun Zhang, Yang Chen, Qingyuan Gong, Xin Wang, Aaron Yi Ding, Yu Xiao, Pan Hui. “Understanding the Working Time of Developers in IT Companies in China and the United States,” in IEEE Software, April 15th,2020.
    • Yaohui Wang, Hui Xu, Yangfan Zhou, Michael R. Lyu, Xin Wang. “Textout: Detecting Text-layout Bugs in Mobile Apps via Visualization-oriented Learning”,in 2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Berlin, Germany, February 10th,2020.
    • Haochuan Lu, Huanlin Xu, Nana Liu, Yangfan Zhou, Xin Wang. “Data Sanity Check for Deep Learning Systems via Learnt Assertions,” in ASE 2019 Late Breaking Results, November 13th,2019.
    • Zhe Chen, Guorong Zhu, Sulei Wang, Yuedong Xu, Jie Xiong, Jin Zhao, Jun Luo, Xin Wang .“M3: Multipath Assisted Wi-Fi Localization with a Single Access Point,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, October 29th,2019.
    • Bohan Zhao, Jin Zhao, Xin Wang, Tilman Wol. “RuleTailor: Optimizing Flow Table Updates in OpenFlow Switches with Rule Transformations,” in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, October 14th,2019.
    • Qingyuan Gong, Jiayun Zhang, Xin Wang, Yang Chen. “Identifying Structural Hole Spanners in Online Social Networks Using Deep Learning,” in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Conference Posters and Demos, August 19th,2019.
    • Yuedong Xu, Zhujun Xiao, Tianyu Ni, Jessie Hui Wang, Xin Wang, Eitan Altman. “On The Robustness of Price-Anticipating Kelly Mechanism,” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, July 18th,2019.
    • Kun Qiu, Jin Zhao, Xin Wang, Xiaoming Fu, Stefano Secci. “Efficient Recovery Path Computation for Fast Reroute in Large-Scale Software-Defined Networks,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, July 5th,2019.
    • Xuebing Li, Bingyang Liu, Yang Chen, Yu Xiao, Jiaxin Tang, Xin Wang. “Artemis: A Practical Low-latency Naming and Routing System,” in the Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing, July 2019.
    • Rui Li, Yu Pang, Jin Zhao, Xin Wang. “A Tale of Two (Flow) Tables: Demystifying Rule Caching in OpenFlow Switches,” in the Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 2019.
    • Jiajie Shen, Yi Li, Yangfan Zhou, Xin Wang. “Understanding I/O Performance of IPFS Storage: A Client’s Perspective,” in 2019 IEEE/ACM 27th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Phoenix, AZ, USA, April 16th,2020.
    • Qian Zhou, Yang Chen, Chuanhao Ma, Fei Li, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Xiaoming Fu. “Measurement and Analysis of Reviews in Airbnb,” in 2018 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops, April 25th,2019.
    • Kun Qiu, Jing Yuan, Jin Zhao, Xin Wang, Stefano Secci, Xiaoming Fu. “FastRule: Efficient Flow Entry Updates for TCAM-based OpenFlow Switches,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, January 23th,2019.
    • Jiajie Shen, Yi Li, Yangfan Zhou, Xin Wang. “Mobile Cloud-of-Clouds Storage Made Efficient: A Network Coding Based Approach,” in 2018 IEEE 37th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Salvador, Brazil, January 17th,2019.
    • Fei Li, Xinlei He, Yang Chen, Qingyuan Gong, Xiaoming Fu, Xin Wang, Pan Hui, Yu Xiao, Fei Li Xinlei He. “Identification of Influential Users in Emerging Online Social Networks Using Cross-Site Linking, ” in Chinese Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ChineseCSCW),December 11th,2018.
    • Rong Xie, Yang Chen, Qinge Xie, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang. “We Know Your Preferences in New Cities: Mining and Modeling the Behavior of Travelers,”in IEEE Communications Magazine, November 19th,2018.
    • Sulei Wang, Zhe Chen, Yuedong Xu, Xin Wang, Qingsheng Kong. “Practical User Selection with Heterogeneous Bandwidth and Antennas for MU-MIMO WLANs,” in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, November 8th, 2018.
    • Kun Qiu, Jing Yuan, Jin Zhao, Xin Wang, Stefano Secci, Xiaoming Fu. “Fast Lookup Is Not Enough: Towards Efficient and Scalable Flow Entry Updates for TCAM-based OpenFlow Switches,” in 2018 IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 23th,2018.
    • Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen, Xinlei He, Zhou Zhuang, Tianyi Wang, Hong Huang, Xin Wang, Xiaoming Fu. “DeepScan: Exploiting Deep Learning for Malicious Account Detection in Location-Based Social Networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, November 19th,2017.
    • Jiajie Shen, Kai Zhang, Jiazhen Gu, Yangfan Zhou, Xin Wang. “Efficient Scheduling for Multi-Block Updates in Erasure Coding Based Storage Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, November 2ed,2017.
    • Kun Qiu, Siyuan Huang, Qiongyuan Gong, Jin Zhao, Xin Wang and Stefano Secci.” ParaCon: A Parallel Control Plane for Scaling Up Path Computation in SDN,” in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, October 10th,2017.
    • Zhe Chen, Zhongmin Li, Xu Zhang, Guorong Zhu, Yuedong Xu, Jie Xiong, Xin Wang. “AWL: Turning Spatial Aliasing From Foe to Friend for Decimeter-Level WiFi Device Localization,” in the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, November 2017.
    • Jiaojiao Fu, Yangfan Zhou, Huan Liu, Yu Kang, Xin Wang. “Perman: Fine-Grained Permission Management for Android Applications,” in 2017 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Soft ware Reliability Engineering,Toulouse,France, November 16th,2017.
    • Zhe Chen, Xu Zhang, Yuedong Xu, Jie Xiong, Yu Zhu, Xin Wang. “MuVi: Multiview Video Aware Transmission Over MIMO Wireless Systems, ”in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, June 8th,2017.
    • Zhe Chen, Xu Zhang, Yuedong Xu, Jie Xiong, Xin Wang. “BUSH: Empowering Large-Scale MU-MIMO in WLANs With Hybrid Beamforming,” in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2017.
    • Qiongwen Xu, Xu Zhang, Jin Zhao, Xin Wang, and Tilman Wolf. “Fast Shortest Path Queries on Large-Scale Weighted Graphs,”  in the Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2016, Singapore, November 2016
    • Yan Wang, Xunrui Yin, Xin Wang, “Two New Classes of 2-Parity MDS Array Codes with Optimal Repair,” IEEE Communications Letters, 2016, 20(7): 1293-1296
    • Song Li, Yangfan Zhou, Lei Jiao, Xinya Yan, Xin Wang, Michael R. Lyu. “Towards Operational Cost Minimization in Hybrid Clouds for Dynamic Resource Provisioning with Delay-aware Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 8(3): 398-409 (2015). 
    • Xiumin Wang, Jin Wang, Xin Wang, Xiaoming Chen. “Energy and Delay Tradeoff for Application Offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing,”IEEE Systems Journal, August 26, 2015. 
    • Xunrui Yin, Zongpeng Li, Xin Wang, Xiangyang Xue. “A Graph Minor Perspective to Multicast Network Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), 60(9):5375-5386, September 2014
    • Xunrui Yin, Yan Wang, Zongpeng Li, Xin Wang , Jin Zhao, Xiangyang Xue. “Bounding the Advantage of Multicast Network Coding in General Network Models,” IEEE Transactions on Communications. 62(3): 1023-1032 (2014).
    • Yan Wang, Xunrui Yin, Xin Wang. “MDR Codes: A New Class of RAID-6 Codes with Minimum Disk I/O for Recovery of Single Disk Failure,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications(JSAC),vol.32, no.5, pp.1008,1018, May 2014
    • Yan Wang, Wei Dongsheng, Xunrui Yin and Xin Wang. “Heterogeneity-Aware Data Regeneration in Distributed Storage Systems,” in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April 27-May 2, 2014.
    • Xunrui Yin, Zongpeng Li, Xin Wang. “A Matroid Theory Approach to Multicast Network Coding,” accepted by the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, to appear in April 27-May 2, 2014.
    • Jun Li, Xin Wang, Baochun Li.“Cooperative Pipelined Regeneration in Distributed Storage Systems,”  in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2013.
    • Xunrui Yin, Yan Wang, Xin Wang, Xiangyang Xue, Zongpeng Li, “A Graph Minor Perspective to Network Coding: Connecting Algebraic Coding with Network Topologies,”  in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2013.
    • Xunrui Yin, Xin Wang, Jin Zhao, Xiangyang Xue, Zongpeng Li. ” Benefits of Network Coding in Bidirected Networks and Hyper-networks,” in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, USA, March 25-30, 2012..
    • Jin Zhao, Xinya Zhang, Xin Wang, Yangdong Deng, Xiaoming Fu. “Exploiting Graphics Processors for High-performance IP Lookup in Software Routers,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2011 Mini-Conference.
    • Jun Li, Shuang Yang, Xin Wang, Baochun Li. “Tree-structured Data Regeneration in Distributed Storage Systems with Regenerating Codes,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, California, March 15-19, 2010.
    • Hassan Shojania, Baochun Li, Xin Wang. “Nuclei: Graphics-Accelerated Multi-Core Network Coding,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 18-25, 2009.
  • Services

    • Steering Committee Member: ICUFN
    • General Vice Co-Chair ICOIN 2018/2019
    • TPC Co-Chair ICUFN 2015/2016/2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022
    • TPC Vice Co-Chair: ICOIN 2015/2016/2017
    • TPC Member: IWQoS 2016/2017/2018/2019/2020, ICCCN 2020
  • Awards

    • Distinguished Speaker, CCF, 2017/2018
    • Talent cultivation Award,Shanghai, 2021