Curriculum Vitae

A compact overview of my education, research experience, technical skills, teaching, and academic service.

Academic Path

Education

2023 - 2028 expected

Hong Kong SAR

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • Advised by Prof. Can Li
  • Research direction: in-memory computing, security and privacy, hw-sw co-design
  • GPA: 4.3/4.3

2019 - 2023

Harbin, China

Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)

School of Astronautics

  • B.Eng. in Microelectronics Science and Engineering
  • Advised by Prof. Haifeng Zhang
  • Grade and ranking: 3.92/4, 91.8/100, Rank 1/80 in the Department of Microelectronics

2016 - 2019

Nanchang, China

Attached Middle School to Jiangxi Normal University

High school diploma, science and engineering track

  • 江西师大附中

Research Exposure

Experiences

Summer 2022

Beijing, China

Peking University (PKU)

C9 League Exchange Scholar

  • Awarded full tuition waiver through the selective C9 inter-university exchange program
  • Completed advanced coursework on AI computing system architectures
  • Explored emerging device technologies through spintronics and superconducting quantum computing

Jan. 2022 - Jun. 2022

Macau SAR

University of Macau (UM)

Exchange Scholar, ECE and SKL-AMSV

  • Awarded tuition waiver and UM exchange scholarship for a full-semester program
  • Gained hands-on exposure to analog/mixed-signal IC design flow

Toolbox

Skills

LLM Systems & Infrastructure

PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Hugging Face PEFT, DeepSpeed ZeRO, Megatron-LM, vLLM, SGLang, Docker

Privacy & Cryptographic Tools

Microsoft SEAL, OpenFHE, arkworks-rs, zkML, Opacus (DP-SGD)

Architecture Modeling

gem5 (cycle-accurate), CACTI (analytical), NeuroSim (analytical)

Hardware Design & EDA

Verilog, SystemVerilog, Chisel; Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, Innovus, Genus, Allegro; Synopsys Design Compiler, Library Compiler, SiliconSmart; Xilinx Vivado, Mentor Graphics ModelSim, Verilator, Altium Designer

Semiconductor Characterization

Keysight B1500, B1530, B29, UI/script control

Programming

Python, C, C++, Rust, Matlab, Shell, Linux, Git, LaTeX

Languages and others

Chinese (Mandarin), English (IELTS: 7.0), Adobe Illustrator, Photography, Swimming

Teaching

Teaching Assistantship

Teaching assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

  • ELEC7086 Analog and Mixed-Signal IC for AI Circuits (Graduate), 2026 Spring
  • ELEC6008 Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (Graduate), 2025 Spring
  • ELEC3249 Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (Undergraduate), 2024 Spring

Service

Academic Service

  • Conference reviewer: DAC'24-26, ICCAD'25-26, DATE'25-26, ASPDAC'25-26
  • Journal reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing