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About Me

I am an incoming Applied Scientist in the S3 team at Amazon Web Services, Seattle, starting August 2025.

I obstained my Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the ADSL lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and Professor Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau. My research focused on computer systems, especially distributed systems and algorithms, operating systems, and cloud storage infrastructure. My dissertation modernizes the design and implementation of consensus protocols for replicated, fault-tolerant cloud services. I also studied file systems and kernel storage stack technologies for new hardware such as persistent memory.

/// Keep calm & do good research!
impl<CS> Researcher<CS> for Me {
    // TODO: This method is far from complete.
    fn week(
        &mut self,
        pubs: &Vec<Literature<CS>>,
        proj: &mut Project<CS>,
        comm: &mut Discussion<CS>, 
    ) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
        let learning = pubs.collect()?.study()?;
        let progress = proj.hard_work()?;
        let insights = comm.make()?.summarize()?;
        self.meeting(learning, progress, insights)?;
        Ok(())
    }
}

If you don’t mind wasting a few seconds of your life, take a look at these projects:

• Summerset: a distributed, replicated, protocol-generic KV-store framework written in async Rust for unified state machine replication (SMR) research purposes.
• MadKV: template of a well-designed KV-store project series for the distributed systems course at my school. Uses for teaching purposes elsewhere are very welcome.
• Hux OS kernel: a weekend operating system kernel project built to be minimal and understandable. I documented my development of Hux into a complete set of wiki pages.
• Garner: demonstrating hierarchical validation for optimistic concurrency control (OCC) on a B+-tree database index.
• Codetective: a client-side WASM app enabling code AI authorship analysis in five clicks.

… and more on my GitHub profile page!

Work Experience

2025.08 - 20−−.−−	Applied Scientist at Amazon S3 ↩︎	Amazon, Seattle
2024.05 - 2024.08	Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon S3 ↩︎	Amazon, Seattle

Education

2020.08 - 2025.07	Ph.D. in Computer Sciences ↩︎	UW-Madison
2019.09 - 2020.07	Special Student Program ↩︎	MIT
2019.07 - 2019.09	Summer Research Intern ↩︎	UCLA
2016.09 - 2020.07	B.Eng. in Computer Science ↩︎	ShanghaiTech

For my teaching experience and services for the research community, please check out my CV.

Comments welcome! 😉

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