Francis Y. Yan

Service

Leadership

Program Committee Chair, Workshop on Practical Adoption Challenges of ML for Systems at SOSP ’25
Artifact Evaluation Chair, ACM SIGCOMM 2024, 2025
Grand Challenge Organizer, ACM MMSys 2021, 2024
Steering Committee Member, ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop (2024–26)
Program Committee Chair, ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 2023
Poster Session Chair, USENIX NSDI 2023
Networking Area Chair, Journal of Systems Research (2022–23)

Program committees

USENIX NSDI 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
ACM SOSP 2026
USENIX OSDI 2026
AIOps 2026
ACM HotNets 2025
ACM SIGCOMM 2024
ACM CoNEXT 2023
IEEE ICNP 2023
Journal of Systems Research (Editorial Board, 2021–22)

Award committees

Machine Learning and Systems Rising Stars 2023, 2024, 2025
IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Reviewers

USENIX NSDI 2022
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2019–23)
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (2019)

Mentorship

Student Mentoring Chair, USENIX NSDI ’26
Mentorship Program: NSDI ’25, OSDI/ATC ’25, SOSP ’25
N2Women Workshop Mentor at SIGCOMM ’23