[Sep 2024] (paper alert)

Update on Oct 8: The research paper on OML is now live on ePrint: Link to OML research paper! The whitepaper on OML: Open, Monetizable and Loyal AI is live. Don’t hesitate to check it out! Link to Whitepaper

[Aug 2024] (personal update)

Started my one-month internship as a Quantitative Researcher at JQ Investment!

[May 2024] (personal update)

Started my internship as an AI fellow at Sentient, hoping to build and innovate at the intersection of AI and blockchains!

[May 2024] (competitive programming)

Representing Princeton University and sitting on 1st of the leaderboard for the opening 40 minutes during the contest, our team (Princeton-1) finally ranked 22nd place at ICPC North America Championship 2024. We were the awardee of “First solution in the contest” and “First Solve of Problem D”, and won a $3,000 prize for this achievement. (Team Reaction Cut on Youtube ICPC Official Channel, Award Ceremony, Final Scoreboard)

[May 2024] (competitive programming)

I was grateful to be invited as a finalist to compete in MIT Informatics Tournament Spring Invitational 2024. Only top-16 contestants in the United States qualify for the final.

[Dec 2023] (competitive programming)

Our team ranked 1st place in the Princeton Computer Science Contest (COSCON) Fall 2023! (Event Website, Final Scoreboard)

• My research interests are generally within the scope of blockchains. I used to do research from the perspective mechanism design and applied cryptography, and now I’m exploring how to equip blockchains with the recent incredible advances in generative AI under the guidance of Prof. Pramod Viswanath.
  

• Since sophomore year, I have been advised by Prof. Zhixuan Fang to conduct scientific research on blockchain at Tsinghua University, and it’s the initiation and enlightenment of my stepping into scientific research. During this period, I completed a research project: Game Theoretical Analysis of Multiple Selfish Mining on Blockchains, and my first academic research paper: Crowdsourcing Work as Mining: A Decentralized Computation and Storage Paradigm.
  

• I was fortunate to be accepted as a research intern in the spring and summer of 2022, advised by Prof. Fan Zhang at Duke University and Prof. Dawn Song at the University of California, Berkeley. I carried out research on two projects during the internship. One was the design and analysis of side contracts against EIP-1559 in Ethereum, and the other was the design and implementation of cross-chain bridge protocols (the paper was accepted to ACM CCS 2022 and it’s my first-ever publication).
  

• I served as a reviewer for IEEE JSAC Special Issue (Intelligent Blockchain) 2022 and reviewed 2 papers.
  

• The list of published papers and their details is attached below.
  

• COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING

  • I am also an experienced and proud competitive programmer (What is competitive programming?).

  * Onsite contests:

  In high school, I was a two-time silver medalist of the Chinese National Olympiad in Informatics (both in 2017 and 2018).

  During undergrad, representing Tsinghua University, I won a gold prize in ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) Regional, a silver prize in ICPC East Asia Continental Final, and 2 gold prizes in CCPC (Chinese Collegiate Programming Contest).

  Now, representing Princeton University, I won an overall third place and bronze medal in ICPC Greater New York Regional 2023 and advanced to ICPC North America Continental Championship 2024.

  * Online contests:

  I rank 16/182,781 worldwide (and 2nd in China) on Hackerrank (leaderboard here).

  I also compete on Codeforces (see my profile here) and CSAcademy (see my profile here).

  * Problem Setting:

  Besides, I’m also an experienced problem setter for competitive programming contests.

  I have set and tested a number of problems for various contests.

  I’m the main author of Codeforces Round #447 (problemset here)

  I’m also a problem setter of the Chinese National Olympiad in Informatics in 2021. Here is the problem I set (original version in Chinese, English translation).

• TV APPEARANCE

• I was fortunate to be the participant of the well-known TV show “Super Brain” (最强大脑 in Chinese) in 2023. It’s truly a fun and unforgettable experience.

• SOCIAL WORK

  • I was gratefully elected and served as the president of Yao Class Students' Congress at Tsinghua University for 2022-23 academic year, and I was the vice president and deputy secretary for 2021-22 academic year.

  • I’m a member of the Algorithm Association at Tsinghua University. And I served as the problem setter and coordinator of a number of contests (including National Olympiad in Informatics (2021), Tsinghua University Programming Contest (2020, 2021, 2022)).

  • I was a volunteer for the 110th anniversary of Tsinghua University.

• AVOCATION

  • Fan of NBA, Formula 1, and European Soccer. My favorite sporting stars include Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors, NBA), Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes, F1 [will be Ferrari soon!]), Charles Leclerc (Ferrari, F1), and Marco Reus (LA Galaxy, previously BVB Dortmund).

  • Amateur yet enthusiastic player of Geoguessr and HugeQuiz (especially in geography and sports).

  • Fan of stand-up comedies (including both Chinese-style cross-talk and American-style talk shows) and musicals. My favorite musicals include “Hamilton” and “Les Miserables”.

  • Fan of music, especially those in musicals or in “Gu-Feng” (古风 in Chinese, means “ancient Chinese”) style.

  • I am also fond of playing basketball, although I don’t have strong skills and can’t often win a game :(