Shudong Jin joined the faculty of the EECS department at Case Western Reserve University in January 2004. He obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from Boston University in 2003, where he had been a research fellow in the Web and InterNetworking Group and a teaching fellow in the Computer Science department. In the earlier years, Shudong Jin received BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and worked in an affiliated database and multimedia research lab for years. His other experiences include working at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in summer 2000 and 2001, and receiving the IBM Ph.D. research fellowship. Shudong was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, where he grew up until leaving for college.

Shudong Jin is a member of ACM (SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS), a member of IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communication Society. He has published nearly twenty research papers in premium journals and major conferences. He has also served as an external referee for various conferences and journals.