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.