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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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Please check all the cool labs and researchers at iCNS and ECE @ Stevens [YouTube]!
Research Interest
LLM Systems, AI Security, HPC, Serverless Computing, Federated Learning
Education
- 2015.09--2020.07, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
- 2012.09--2015.03, M.E. in Software Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2008.09--2012.07, B.E. in Information Security, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Teaching
- AAI595: Applied Machine Learning, Stevens, 2025-present (2025F: 4.87/5.0)
- CSC7598: Distributed Computing, LSU, 2024 Spring
- CSC3501: Computer Organization & Design, LSU, 2021--2024 Spring
- CSC4501: Computer Networks, LSU, 2021--2023 Fall
Awards
- 2026, Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), Funded by AFRL/RI
- 2026, ICML 2026 Gold Reviewer (Top 25%)
- 2026, Stevens Early Career Award for Research Excellence
- 2024, 2025, SIGHPC Early Career Travel Grant
- 2025, KDD 2025 Feb Cycle Outstanding Reviewers (Top 10%), KDD
- 2025, Research Excellence Award, ECE Department, Stevens Institute of Technology
- 2024, 2025, 2026, Distinguished Member of IEEE INFOCOM TPC recognition
- 2024, ACM SoCC 2024 Best Paper Award
- 2024, ACM/IEEE SC 2024 Best Student Paper Finalist
- 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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Leadership and Organizing Roles
- Reproducibility Initiative Co-Chair: ACM/IEEE SC27
- Steering Committee: Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI)
- TPC Co-chair: INFOCOM 2026 Workshop on Embodied Intelligence Networks (EIN)
- Organizer: DuckAI: The iCNS/ECE Symposium on AI Research and Innovations, 2025 Spring, 2025 Fall, 2026 Spring
- Organizer and Program Chair: ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 Workshop: AI Crossroads: Systems, Energy, and Applications
- Organizer and Chair: TigerAI 2024: LSU/IBM AI Security Summer Boot Camp
- Publicity Chair: IEEE Cluster 2026, Springer ICA3PP 2023
- Web Chair: APNet 2024–2025, IEEE ICNP 2017
- Session Chair: INFOCOM 2022–2023, ACM SoCC 2022
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Editorial Service
- Action Editor (AE): Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026
- Guest Editor: Computer Networks, Special Issue on Reconfigurable Networks: Enhancing Performance and Sustainability in Access Networks and the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum, 2025
- Topic Editor: Frontiers in Computer Science — Software, Topic on Serverless Computing for Stateful Applications, 2024
- Guest Editor: Journal of Systems Architecture, Special Issue on AI-driven Next-Generation Distributed Systems and Applications, 2023
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Funding Review Service
- NSF Panelist: 2022, 2024 × 3, 2025 × 6
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Reviewer: 2023
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Mentoring and Outreach
- Faculty Mentor: Google Research exploreCSR, 2021
- Faculty Mentor: LSU High School Summer Research Program, 2022–2023
- Faculty Mentor: Kenilworth Science and Technology Charter School Student Research Mentorship Program, 2021–2024
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Conference TPC Member and Journal Reviewer
- Systems and Networks: DAC 2026, ACM/IEEE SC 2026-2027, ACM HPDC 2024–2026, ACM SoCC 2022, 2025, INFOCOM 2021–2025, Globecom 2022, ADHOCNETS 2021, ICCCN 2022–2023, ICDCS 2022–2025, IEEE TPDS 2021-2025, IEEE ToN, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TCC 2024, 2025, IEEE TMC 2024, IEEE TC 2024, IEEE TSC 2025, IEEE IoTJ
- AI and Machine Learning: HealthCom 2026, ACL 2026, AISTATS 2025, CVPR 2024–2026, ICLR 2024–2026, KDD 2025–2026, ECAI 2023, AAAI 2023–2027, ECML PKDD 2022, NeurIPS 2022–2026, ICML 2022–2026, IEEE BigData 2026, IEEE CDC 2023, IEEE TAI, IEEE TIST
- Security: TIFS, IEEE TDSC 2024–2025
- Web and Data: ACM WSDM 2023, ACM Web Conference 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
