Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology
Email: lijialong [at] suat-sz.edu.cn
Research Topics: Networking for ML | AI Clusters | Data Center Networks | Optical Networks
I joined Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology (SUAT) in June 2025 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Control Engineering. I am a full-time faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Control Engineering at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. I am authorized to supervise Ph.D. students in Computer Science. I serve as the PI and lead the LabOratOry of advanced and Next-Gen networking (LOONG Lab). My research focuses on networking for ML, AI clusters, data center networks, and optical networks.
The group is hiring:
Interested candidates can email lijialong@suat-sz.edu.cn with a CV, transcript, and 1–2 representative papers (if available). Qualified applicants will be notified within 1–2 weeks.
I am an Assistant Professor at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology (SUAT). Prior to this, I was a postdoc researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), working with Yiting Xia and Anja Feldmann (ACM Fellow). I received my B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2016 and 2021, respectively, under the supervision of Xiaoping Zheng and Bingkun Zhou (CAS Fellow).
My research focuses on networking for ML and data center networks. I have published as the first author in top venues such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, and ToN. I have authored over 20 academic papers, served on program committees for conferences, and reviewed for several journals. I have been awarded the Tsinghua University Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship and the Tsinghua University Friends - Xiaomi Scholarship.