News. I will be joining Sei Labs as a Research Scientist in June 2026.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the Exploratory Systems Lab (ExpoLab), UC Davis, advised by Prof. Mohammad Sadoghi. My research designs and builds high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems that remain resilient under adversarial conditions — the foundations of next-generation blockchain infrastructure.

My current interests include Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus, fair transaction ordering, transaction scheduling, parallel execution, and MEV mitigation. My work has appeared at VLDB, SIGMOD, PODC, DISC, and ICDE — including HotStuff-1 (SIGMOD 2025; Honorable Mention for Best Artifact), FairDAG (PVLDB Vol. 19), Carry the Tail (DISC 2025), and Spotless (ICDE 2024). In summer 2025, I was a Research Intern at Mysten Labs, where I worked on transaction scheduling for Multi-proposer consensus. I received my B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2022.

Open-source

I serve as an Architect of ResilientDB — an Apache-incubator distributed ledger that unifies secure transactional and real-time analytical processing under a decentralized computational model. Since 2022, my colleague Junchao and I have re-architected its modular system design from the ground up, embedding parallelism and deep pipelining at every layer to fully exploit modern hardware. I have implemented its production BFT engines, including PBFT, HotStuff-1, and FairDAG.

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