About Me
I received my Ph.D. degree from the ECE Department, UofT 2020 July. I finished both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012 and 2015, respectively. I received the NSF CRII Award in 2022.
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Research Interest
Serverless Computing, Federated Learning, High-Performance Computing, AI Security
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
University of Toronto, 2015.09--2020.11, advised by Prof. Baochun Li. - M.E. in Software Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), 2012.09--2015.03 - B.E. in Information Security
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), 2008.09--2012.07
Teaching
- AAI595: Applied Machine Learning, Stevens, 2025 Spring, Fall
- CSC7598: Distributed Computing, LSU, 2024 Spring
- CSC3501: Computer Organization & Design, LSU, 2021--2024 Spring
- CSC4501: Computer Networks, LSU, 2021--2023 Fall
Awards
- 2025, KDD 2025 Feb Cycle Outstanding Reviewers (Top 10%), KDD
- 2025, Research Excellence Award, ECE Department, Stevens Institute of Technology
- 2025, Distinguished Member of IEEE INFOCOM 2025 TPC recognition
- 2024, ACM SoCC 2024 Best Paper Award
- 2024, ACM/IEEE SC 2024 Best Student Paper Finalist
- 2024, SIGHPC Early Career Travel Grant
- 2024, Distinguished Member of IEEE INFOCOM 2024 TPC recognition
- 2022, Excellent Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Network Science & Engineering
- 2022, NSF CRII Award
- 2019, Didi Graduate Awards on Cloud Computing, Didi Chuxing Technology Co. (滴滴出行)
- 2019, Best In-session Presentation Award, INFOCOM'19, IEEE
- 2019, Doctoral Completion Award, ECE Department, University of Toronto
- 2018, SGS Conference Grant, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto
- 2018, Student Scholarships, SoCC'18, ACM
- 2015, University of Toronto Fellowship, ECE Department, University of Toronto
- 2015, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Scholarships, University of Toronto
- 2013, Yunfeng Prize, The 2nd Aliyun Cloud Computing Developer Competition (Top 1%), Alibaba Cloud Inc.
Professional Service
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Organizer
- Organizers: DuckAI 2025: The 1st iCNS/ECE Symposium on AI Research and Innovations
- Organizers/Program Chairs: ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 Workshop: AI Crossroads: Systems, Energy, and Applications
- Organizer/Chair: TigerAI 2024: LSU/IBM AI Security Summer Boot Camp
- Publicity Chair: Springer ICA3PP 2023
- Web Chair: APNet 2024-2025, IEEE ICNP 2017
- Session Chair: INFOCOM 2022-2023, ACM SoCC 2022 (online)
- Guest Editor: Journal of Systems Architecture (Special issue: AI-driven Next-Generation Distributed Systems and Applications)
- Topic Editor: Frontiers in Computer Science Software (Topics: Serverless Computing for Stateful Applications)
- NSF Panelist, 2022, 2024x3, 2025x6
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Reviewer, 2023
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Faculty Mentor
- Google Research exploreCSR, 2021
- LSU High School Summer Research Program, 2022-2023
- Kenilworth Science and Technology Charter School Student Research Mentorship Program, 2021-2024
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Conference TPC Member & Journal Reviewer
- System & Network: ACM HPDC 2024-25, ACM SoCC 2022, INFOCOM 2021-2025, Globecom 2022, ADHOCNETS 2021, ICCCN 2022-2023, ICDCS 2022-2025, IEEE TPDS, IEEE ToN, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TCC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TSC, IEEE IoTJ
- AI & ML: AISTATS 2025, CVPR 2024-2025, ICLR 2024-2025, KDD 2025, ECAI 2023, AAAI 2023-2025, ECML PKDD 2022, NeurIPS 2022-2024, ICML 2022-2023, IEEE CDC 2023, IEEE TAI, IEEE TIST
- Security: TIFS
- Web & Data: ACM WSDM 2023, ACM theWebConf 2022, 2024, IEEE IRI 2020-2021
Links
- Writing Perfect Papers, by Prof. Baochun Li.
- How to Read a Paper, by Prof. Srinivasan Keshav.
- How to Become A Hacker, by Zach Alberico.
- A Research to Engineering Workflow, by Dr. Dustin Tran.
- Metadata - on Distributed Systems Broadly Defined, by Prof. Murat Demirbas.
- On Coding, Ego and Attention, by Jose Browne.
- Systems Benchmarking Crimes, by Prof. Gernot Heiser.
- A successful Git branching model, by Vincent Driessen.
Leisure Life
