CV

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

High School

Shenzhen Middle School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Graduate Research Assistant

Systems Platform Research Group, UIUC

Graduate Teaching Assistant

ECE 522, UIUC

Graduate Teaching Assistant

ECE 511, UIUC

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students

Undergraduate Grader

ECE 310, UIUC

Hardware-assisted Multi-tenant Neural Processing Unit

• Conducts a thorough study of the resource utilization of modern NPUs with real hardware devices.
• Proposes a multi-tenant NPU design for improving resource utilization and fairness.
• Designs a tensor operator scheduler that improves the fairness and throughput for collocated ML workloads.
• Develops a clustering scheme to identify pairs of collocatable DNN workloads.

Software-Defined Rack-Scale Storage System with Network-Storage Co-Design

• Proposes a rack-scale storage system that co-designs software-defined network and software-defined storage.
• Develops a new I/O scheduling mechanism across network and storage for predictable performance.
• Develops a coordinated GC mechanism for a rack of SSDs to minimize the impact on the storage performance.
• Develops a rack-scale wear leveling mechanism for ensuring the uniform lifetime of a rack of SSDs.

Trusted Execution Environment for In-Storage Computing

• Develops IceClave, a trusted execution environment for in-storage computing in modern solid-state drives.
• Enables security isolation between in-storage apps and the flash translation layer with ARM TrustZone.
• Proposes efficient memory encryption and verification method to protect user data against physical attacks.