Biography

I am currently a third-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 systems, especially blockchain systems. Most recently, I have been focusing on building efficient and high-performance consortium blockchains.

You can download my CV from here.

Last update on April 29, 2021.

• 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

• 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)