Ph.D. Students

Shutong Qu  

Incoming 2025 Fall Ph.D. student
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Eng. from Institute for Interdisplinary Information Science, Tsinghua University

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Tairan Zhang

2024
B.S. in Computer Science and Systems

Boda Li

2024
B.S. in Computer Science and Systems

Ph.D. Candidates at CUHK-Shenzhen

Rong Zhao  

2021
B.Eng. from Southern University of Science and Technology

Ph.D. Students at CUHK-Shenzhen

Junyu Zhang  

2022
M.Sc. from New York University
B.Eng. from Tsinghua University

Haoran Yin  

2022
B.Eng. from Sichuan University

Alumni at CUHK-Shenzhen

Ph.D.

Dr. Lehao Lin  

2021.09 - 2025.03
Thesis: Sustainable Digital Ecosystems: Advancing Resilience in the Web3 Metaverse
Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Eng. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Dr. Hao Wu  

2022.01 - 2025.03
Thesis: Exploring Collective Artistic and Ludic Activities in Web3 Multimedia Applications
Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
M.A. from Tsinghua University
B.A. from Tsinghua University

Dr. Jinghan Sun  

2021.09 - 2025.03
Thesis: Mechanism Design for Smart Contract-as-a-Service on Blockchain
Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
M.Eng. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology
B.Eng. from Hohai University

Dr. Hongzhou Chen  

2022.09 - 2024.05
Thesis: Exploring Community Ecology in the Web3 Metaverse
Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
M.A. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Eng. from Southeast University

Dr. Haihan Duan  

2020.09 - 2023.11
Associate Professor, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University
Thesis: Facilitating User-Generated Content Creation in Web3 Metaverse
Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
M.Eng. from Sichuan University
B.Eng. from East China Normal University

Dr. Sizheng Fan  

2019.09 - 2023.03
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Guanghua School of Management at Peking University
Thesis: Evaluating and Designing Decentralized Business Models in Web 3.0
Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from Beijing Institute of Technology

M.Phil.

Shutong Qu  

2023.09 - 2025.03
Thesis: Multistage Airdrop: Improving Airdrop Market by Dynamic Games
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Eng. from Tsinghua University

Yueyao Li  

2023.09 - 2025.03
Thesis: Towards the Detection of Scams in Solana Meme Coins: An Integrated Social and Transaction Graph Learning Approach
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Nanjun Yao  

2023.09 - 2025.03
Thesis: Social Behavior in Blockchain-Driven Innovations: Empirical Studies on New Methods for Sustainability and Creativity
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Eng. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Ke Wang  

2023.09 - 2025.03
Thesis: Understanding How People Recognize and Evaluate Generative AI-extended Video
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Eng. from Tsinghua University

Huiyu Wang  

2022.09 - 2024.05
Thesis: Interplay between Social Media and Crypto Asset in Web3 Era
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from The University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Jiaxiang Sun  

2022.09 - 2024.05
Thesis: Integrative Framework for AIGC Service: Enhancing Compliance through Redactable Blockchain Consensus and Data Regulation
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from Peking University

Chenyu Zhou  

2022.09 - 2024.05
Thesis: Unveiling Trading Patterns in Web3 Decentralized Financial Markets
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Eng. from The China University of Petroleum, Beijing

Hong Kang  

2021.09 - 2023.11
Ph.D. student at McGill University
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Eng. from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Yiming Lai

2020.09 - 2023.11
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from Ocean University of China

Zhonghao Lin

2021.09 - 2023.06
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Eng. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Hongbo Zhang

2020.09 - 2023.06
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Minghao Li

2021.01 - 2022.06
Ph.D. student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from Xiamen University

Yu Jiang

2020.09 - 2022.06
Ph.D. student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from Xiamen University

Yu Chen

2019.09 - 2021.06
Ph.D. student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Kun Xin

2019.09 - 2021.06
Jiangxi Yumin Bank, China
M.Phil. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
B.Sc. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen