- Appointed as the Valedictorian, delivering the speech at the Commencement ceremony
- Honorable Mention for Jim Gray Dissertation Award
- ACM SIGMOD 2022 recognition
- The IMDA Excellence Prize (2021/2022 Academic Year), School of Computing, National University of Singapore
- Research Highlight Award, ACM SIGMOD 2020
- Dean's Graduate Research Excellence Award (2019/2020 Academic Year), School of Computing, National University of Singapore
- Best Paper Award, VLDB 2019
- Graduate Research Excellence Award (2018/2019 Academic Year), School of Computing, National University of Singapore
- Published multiple papers on blockchain technology in top international conferences such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB
Research Experience
- ByteDance, Singapore, Mar 2022 ~ Present, Software Engineer (Infrastructure), working to build the next-generation, industry-scale, highly-available data systems
- National University of Singapore, Sept 2021 ~ Mar 2022, Research Fellow
- National University of Singapore, Aug 2016 ~ Sept 2021, Research Assistant
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science) from National University of Singapore, Supervisor: Prof OOI Beng Chin, Thesis: Blockchains: Novel Data Systems and Beyond
- Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) with First Class Honors from Nanyang Technological University, Specialization: High Performance Computing, Information System, GPA: 4.86/5.0 (3rd in the cohort)
- High School Student at Nanjing Foreign Language School
- Born on Jan 23rd 1994, Huai'an, Jiangsu, China
Background
A Computer Scientist, a Software Engineer, a Son, and a Husband... Research interests include blockchains, distributed databases, etc.
Miscellany
Married on Dec 1st 2020; met a beautiful girl during undergraduate studies who later became his wife; received awards including Hewlett-Packard Gold Medal, Dean’s List, 15th SM2 Scholarship; interned at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*Star, Singapore