Education & Experience

Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · advised by Prof. Vyas Sekar

Machine Learning Intern

Rockfish Data, Inc. · Pittsburgh, PA

Designed query templates for tabular and time-series data and built a framework that generates them automatically from a dataset’s schema, scoring synthetic data by how closely its query answers track the real data. Now shipping in the company’s product.

Software Development Intern

Conviva, Inc. · Beijing, China

Built a model that predicts SQL query runtime on the company’s data platform for performance analysis and resource provisioning; its outlier predictions led to the discovery of critical performance bugs.

Visiting Researcher — SmartNICs for cloud infrastructure

University of Washington · Seattle, WA · advised by Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy

Characterized the on-path packet-processing unit (DPA) of the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU, then designed a multi-path kernel-bypass transport that exploits datacenter path diversity instead of pinning a flow to one path as RoCEv2 does.

B.S. in Computer Science & B.S. in Mathematics

Peking University · Beijing, China

Double major across the School of EECS and the School of Mathematical Sciences. Ranked 4th of 144 in computer science. Research with Prof. Tong Yang on sketching algorithms and programmable switches.