Biography

I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student at School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, supervised by Prof. Chen Feng, who is the co-cluster lead of Blockchain@UBC. My research interests lie in distributed system, cybersecurity, as well as blockchain technologies. Recently, I have been focusing on off-chain scaling technologies, including payment channel networks and sidechains.

You can download my CV from here.

Last update on Dec. 19, 2019.

• ¹²⁄₂₀₁₉: I started working (part-time) at Dapper Labs as a backend engineer for Flow blockchain.

• ¹²⁄₂₀₁₉: I joined Graduate Blockchain Training Path as a Ph.D. student of Blockchain@UBC, which will start in Jan. 2020.

• 06/2019: Our joint work A Secure Consensus Protocol for Sidechains is pre-printed in arXiv.

• 06/2019: I started a 6-month NSERC program at Dapper Labs, the company that created CryptoKitties. We will work on some research projects about BFT consensus for blockchains.

• 04/2019: My coauthored book 《深入以太坊智能合约开发》(Diving Deep Into Ethereum Smart Contract Development) has been published! Check this for details.

• 04/2019: I am going to give a speach on off-chain scaling of current blockchains at Blockchain@UBC Monthly Research Talk.

• 03/2019: I am going to participate the blockchain summer institute at UBC Vancouver campus.

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)