Biography

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, supervised by Prof. Chen Feng, who is the co-cluster lead of Blockchain@UBC. I also work closely with Prof. Ivan Beschastnikh. My research interests lie in distributed systems, especially blockchain systems. Most recently, I have been focusing on building scalable BFT-based blockchain systems.

You can download my CV from here.

Last update on Dec. 14, 2021.

• ¹²⁄₂₀₂₁: Our paper Publish or Perish: Defending Withholding Attack in Dfinity Consensus has won the best paper award of MSN 2021.

• ¹⁰⁄₂₀₂₁: I was invited to give a talk Dissecting the Performance of Byzantine Agreement in Blockchain Era at Facebook Novi, hosted by Alberto Sonnino.

• 08/2021: I have passed my Ph.D. candidancy exam and become a Ph.D. candidate.

• 04/2021: Our paper Cumulus: A Secure BFT-based Sidechain for Off-chain Scaling is to appear at IWQoS 2021.

• 04/2021: I joined Database and Storage Lab at Alibaba DaMo Academy as a research intern.

• 03/2021: Our paper Dissecting the Performance of Chained-BFT is to appear at ICDCS 2021.

• ¹²⁄₂₀₂₀: Our paper On the Performance of Pipelined HotStuff is to appear at INFOCOM 2021.

• ¹⁰⁄₂₀₂₀: Our paper Fast-HotStuff: A Fast and Resilient HotStuff Protocol is posted on arXiv with a paper review from Alqahtani Salem.

• 09/2020: I joined Hangzhou Qulian Technology (Hyperchain) as a research intern, working on improving state-of-the-art BFT consensus protocols.

• 07/2020: Our paper Incentive Analysis of Bitcoin-NG, Revisited has been accepted to IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2020

I am the TA of the following courses:

• ENGR 453: Internet of Things (Winter 2018)

  • I designed all of the lab instructions which can be found here

• Renmin National Fellowship, First Prize (2013-2015)
• Samsung Fellowship, 2015
• Best Graduate Student of Beijing Institute of Technology, 2015
• Guanghua Fellowship, 2017
• China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship (2018-2022)