He received his PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Devavrat Shah, for which he received the George M. Sprowls Award given for the best doctoral thesis in computer science at MIT. He graduated from Seoul National University in Computer Science and Mathematics (double majors). His research interests are in machine learning, algorithms, communication, and networks, with a particular focus on probabilistic graphical models, large-scale optimization, combinatorial resource allocation, and distributed scheduling. The research accomplishments of Dr. Jinwoo Shin have led to fundamental advances in distributed algorithm design and analysis for resource allocation in stochastic processing networks and inference in graphical models.