About me

I am a final year Ph.D. student at Rice University, honored to work with Dr. Christopher Jermaine. I finished my undergraduate study in 2018 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) with a major in Computer Science and a minor in International Economics and Trade.

Research Interests

Data Management
Data Analytics

I commit 1 hour every week to provide guidance, suggestions, and/or mentorships for undergraduate/master/underrepresented students whoever want to apply for graduate school. Please fill in this form if you are interested.

I am actively mentoring undergraduates and master students who want to do research related to various ML+System topics. Send me an email and let us talk!

Publications

• [ICCV’23] Federated Learning Over Images: Vertical Decompositions and Pre-Trained Backbones Are Difficult to Beat [PDF][Code]
• [ICML’23] Auto-Differentiation of Relational Computations for Very Large Scale Machine Learning. [PDF][Code]
• [VLDB’22] Distributed learning of fully connected neural networks using independent subnet training.[PDF][Code]
• [ICML-FL’21] Federated Multiple Label Hashing (FedMLH): Communication Efficient Federated Learning on Extreme Classification Tasks.[PDF]
• [VLDB’21] Tensor Relational Algebra for Distributed Machine Learning System Design.[PDF][Code]
• [Usenix Security’20] Programmable {In-Network} Security for Context-aware {BYOD} Policies.[PDF]
• [OSDI’18] A Programmable, Hardware-Assisted Network Protocol Fuzzer. [PDF]
• [WUWNET’17] Exploring simulation of software-defined underwater wireless networks.[PDF]

Contact

Address: Duncan Hall 3063, 6100 Main St, Houston
Email: {firstname.lastname}@rice.edu
Hobby: I love animals a lot, including but not limited to cats, dogs.