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Education
2020 - Present
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Tufts University, Somerville, MA
Advisor: Raja Sambasivan
Research focus: Observability, monitoring, microservices, and distributed systems
2017 - 2019
M.S. in Computer Science, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Research focus: Distributed systems, networking (SDN/NFV), and differential privacy
2013 - 2017
B.S. in Software Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Activities: 2 patents and 4 national college entrepreneurship awards
Research experience
Sep 2020 - Present
Research/Teaching Assistant, Tufts University, Somerville, MA
- Courses TAed: Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Debugging Cloud, and Big Data
- Infrastructure duties: maintaining Kubernetes/Docker environments for microservice testbeds; supporting experiment setup and data collection pipelines in AWS and CloudLab
- Research projects: predicting hardware contention for microservices; correlating request-level tracing with kernel events; automating identification of upstream contention triggers via cross-trace analysis; and rethinking distributed tracing under incomplete traces and smarter sampling
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Full Stack Software Engineer, Metallica Commodities Corporation, White Plains, NY
- Developed features for internal trading backend and cross-datacenter data replication systems
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Project Manager Intern, Taiji Computer Corporation Limited, Beijing, China
- Conducted requirement analysis, proposal writing, and code review
Skills
Development: Python, Golang, gRPC, Bash, Git
Library and Toolkit: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, SkyWalking, perf, eBPF
Publications
- Automating instrumentation choices for performance problems in distributed applications with VAIF, 4th author, SoCC 2021. Link
- Diagnosing behavioral causes of contention in distributed systems (Poster), 1st author, NSDI 2023 Poster Session. Link
- Accurate and Predictable Scoring for Hardware Contention in Microservices, 1st author, submitted to ISPASS 2026. Link
- Automatically identifying errant upstream contention triggers in microservice applications via cross-trace analyses, co-1st author, in preparation.
- A Plant Planting Device (Chinese patent), 1st author, 2015.
Awards and Honors
- 2016 Microsoft Imagine Cup Chinese National College Scientific Competition (Sichuan Division), 2nd place
- 2016 China National Internet of Things and Innovation Start-ups Competition, 1st-tier prize