I’m currently working as a machine learning engineer at EV.com. Previouly, I co-founded a startup company: Hemlig AI. Hemlig aims to study the cutting edge topics in privacy-preserving machine learning and implement these techniques into our products. I am going to receive Master’s degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Toronto. I previously worked in iQua, advised by Baochun Li. I received my bachelor degree from Department of CSE in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. During my undergraduate studies, I was a research intern at John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science, advised by Liyao Xiang and Xinbing Wang. Previously, I took a research fellowship at Max Planck Society, advised by Yiting Xia and Binghang Yuan. I speak Mandarin, English, and French.

My research focuses on privacy-preserving machine learning in distributed systems. My research interest includes data privacy, system security, Trustworthy ML, and decentralized trust technologies. I’m interested in solving problems with real-world use cases, facilitating full-stack solutions for data privacy and system security in modern decentralized and AI oriented ecosystem. Here are some examples of my constributions:

  • How can we realize privacy-preserving split learning and have as much as possible tradeoff for privacy, accuracy and efficiency? CVPR, ICDM.
  • How can we improve the performance of Federated Learning, without compromising the privacy requirements? AAAI, ICDCS, BigData.
  • Open-sourced distributed systems for privacy-preserving machine learning. IMWUT, ICDCS.

Honors and Academic Awards

Scholarships

Graduate

  • Kwok Sau Po Scholarship. 2023
  • Czeslaw and Irene Klawe Scholarship. 2023
  • Ewing Rae Graduate Scholarship. 2023
  • Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Scholarships. 2022, 2023, 2024.

Undergraduate

  • Alumni Scholarship. 2021
  • HuaWei Scholarship. 2020
  • East Dong Businiess Scholarship. 2019
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University ABC Scholarships (B). 2019, 2020, 2021

Travel Grants

  • School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Conference Grant, University of Toronto. 2024

Awards

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University Outstanding Graduates. 2022
  • National Outstanding College Student Project of Innovation. 2022
  • Honor for outstanding students in the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Third prize in 17th “Challenger” Shanghai Collegiate Science and Technology Competition. 2021.
  • Honorable Mention in Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling. 2020
  • First prize in China Collegiate Mathematics contest. 2019
  • First prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces. 2017
  • First prize in Minds and Hands: engineering better life by MIT. 2017
  • Second prize in Shanghai Adolescents Science and Technology Innovation Contest. 2017

Professional Experience

Academic Reviewer

Conferences

  • 2025 the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS).
  • 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
  • 2025 the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
  • 2024 the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Student Research Workshop. (ACL SRW).
  • 2024 the Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
  • 2024, 2023 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS).
  • 2024 Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV).
  • 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
  • 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
  • 2023 ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys).
  • 2022 IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC).

Journals

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE).
  • Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).

Full-Time Experience

  • Machine Learning Engineer, EV.com. Oct. 2024-present.

Academic Appointments

Appointments in Student Academic Committee

  • Academic Mentor, Global Graduates’ Union (GGU) Consulting. 2022-present
  • Academic Mentor, Turing Academy. 2023-present
  • Academic Committee, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2020-2022
  • Study Assistance Committee, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2018-2022
  • Student Committee, Office of Undergraduate Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University . 2020-2021.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant

University of Toronto

  • ECE244 Programming Fundamentals
  • Writing Development Initiative
  • ECE344 Operating Systems
  • ECE243 Computer Organization
  • CSC258 Computer Organization
  • CSC263 Data Structures and Analysis
  • CSC148 Introduction to Computer Science

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • MA500 Application of Fuzzy Math
  • CS214 Algorithm and Complexity
  • EE447 Mobile Internet

Lectures

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • CS154 C++ Programming
  • CS149 Data Structure

Fundings

  • Mitacs Accelerate Program
  • UofT ZJU Joint Seed Fund

Volunteer

  • Shanghai Marathon, 2020.
  • International volunteer in Sri Lanka, in 2019. Watch on Bilibili.

Hobbies

  • Basketball Team of Computer Science Department, SJTU. Champion, 2023.
  • Chinese National Third Grade Sportsman. Track-100 meters.