Biography

Since 2023, I've been a tenure-track assistant professor of computer science at the University of Washington, where I'm affiliated with the UWDB Group, the TCSS Program, and the eScience Institute. Previously, I completed my postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Computer Science & Engineering and had the privilege of working under the guidance of Prof. Magdalena Balazinska. Prior to relocating to the United States, I earned my diploma in mathematical statistics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

Research

• I found and co-direct the High-Performance and Data-Intensive Computing (HPDIC) research lab
• Publications: Google Scholar (note that my name is a popular Chinese name), DBLP (more accurate)
• Selected Papers:
  • [SIGMOD'23] Toward Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Outsourced Databases through Parallel Caching
  • [IPDPS'22] Topological Modeling and Parallelization of Multidimensional Data on Microelectrode Arrays
  • [IPDPS'22] DEAN: A Lightweight and Resource-efficient Blockchain Protocol for Reliable Edge Computing
  • [SC'21] BAASH: lightweight, efficient, and reliable blockchain-as-a-service for HPC systems
  • [ICDE'21] SciChain: Blockchain-enabled Lightweight and Efficient Data Provenance for Reproducible Scientific Computing
  • [AAAI'20 Oral] HDK: Toward High Performance Deep-Learning-Based Kirchhoff Analysis
  • [SC'19] Swift machine learning model serving scheduling: a region based reinforcement learning approach
  • [VLDB'17] Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads
  • [TPDS'16] Towards Exploring Data-Intensive Scientific Applications at Extreme Scales through Systems and Simulations
  • [TSC'16] Dynamic Virtual Chunks: On Supporting Efficient Accesses to Compressed Scientific Data
  • [IPDPS'13] ZHT: A Light-Weight Reliable Persistent Dynamic Scalable Zero-Hop Distributed Hash Table
  • [TPAMI'09] Incremental Isometric Embedding of High-Dimensional Data Using Connected Neighborhood Graphs

Teaching

In Autumn 2023, I teach

• CS143: Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming Theory and Application

I have been the instructor of the following courses:

• Object-Oriented Programming: undergraduate only
• Database Management Systems: both undergraduate and graduate
• Distributed Computing: graduate only
• Cryptography and Blockchains: graduate only

I have been the academic advisor of the following students (degree, graduation year, name, first employment):

• Ph.D., 2023, Olamide Timothy Tawose, tenure-track assistant professor at Lincoln University, USA
• Ph.D., 2022, Abdullah Al-Mamun, tenure-track assistant professor at Augusta University, USA
• Ph.D., 2022, Xinying Wang, research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Ph.D., 2021, Jiayao Wang, assistant professor at Yangzhou University, China
• M.Sc., 2021, Jianing Zhuang, software engineer at Microsoft, USA
• M.Sc., 2020, Bin Li, software engineer at Google, USA

Resources

• TACC: 129.114.108.174
• UW: ovid.u.washington.edu