Experience & Awards

💼 Experience

• Visiting Scholar · National University of Singapore
  • Hosted by Prof. Xiaokui Xiao
  • Graph-based RAG systems
• Research Intern · Alibaba Tongyi Lab
  • Systems for building pretrained latency prediction models
  • With Rong Zhu and Bolin Ding
• Research Intern · Huawei Cloud PaaS Technology Innovation Lab
  • Code knowledge graphs for improving code LLM performance
  • With Xilin Liu and Yuchi Ma
• Database System Developer Intern · PingCAP TiDB Group
  • Optimized hotspot small-table workloads in TiDB
  • With Kangli Mao

🏆 Honors and Awards

• [2026]🎓 ACM SIGMOD China Doctoral Dissertation Award 3 recipients in China
• [2026]💎 KDD Best Reviewers
• [2026]🏆 Best Paper Award, ICSE Industry Challenge Track CCF-A
• [2025]🥇 BYD Scholarship 1 recipient in the school
• [2024]🎖️ Guotai Junan Scholarship for Excellence and Better China 4 recipients university-wide
• [2024]🌟 ByteDance Scholarship Nominee 40 nominees worldwide
• [2023, 2025]🍎 Best Teaching Assistant, CUHK-Shenzhen
• [2021]🐬 Selected for the PingCAP Talent Plan TiDB track
• [2021]🐦 Tencent Rhino-bird Open-source Training Program (Tars)
• [2020]🎓 Outstanding Graduate, Harbin Institute of Technology

🌱 Open-source & Community

• Contributed 7,000+ lines of code to TiDB, PingCAP's distributed SQL database.
• My posts on databases, operating systems and distributed systems have been read 1,000,000+ times on Zhihu.