Education

PhD in Computer Science — Indiana University Bloomington (2019–2025)

  • Advised by Prof. XiaoFeng Wang
  • Collaborate under NSF Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC)

B.S. in Electrical Engineering — Xi’an Jiaotong University (2014–2018)

  • Honor’s Youth Program (Including 2-year Preparatory Courses)

Experience

Software Engineer — Google DeepMind, Mountain View (Fall 2025–Present)

  • Prototyped AI inference systems at scale with protections provided by confidential computing
  • Designed and conducted large-scale evaluations on production AI integration, especially multi-modal models

Research Intern — Microsoft Research, Redmond (Summer 2024)

  • Prototyped AI inference systems keeping user data and private model secret via record & replay
  • Conducted code analysis of CUDA kernel compilation, specifically launch and invocation details

Research Intern — Baidu USA, Sunnyvale (Spring 2022)

  • Designed and implemented an FaaS framework meeting the new Proof of Being Forgotten policy
  • Verified formal model of enclaves on Coq and implementation with zero data retention policies on Rust
  • Published paper at USENIX Security'23; gave invited talks at Ant Group, TikTok, and Alibaba

Research Intern — Baidu USA, Sunnyvale (Summer 2021)

  • Supported WebAssembly for Teaclave, a secure computing platform, with an AI inference app using TVM
  • Worked as a committer to Apache Teaclave and contributor to Apache TVM

Teaching

  • 2023: Instructor of Student Summer Intern at CDCC; Mentor of Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
  • 2022: Advisor of Undergraduate Researcher at Luddy School

Honors & Activities

  • Distinguished Artifact Reviewer of ACSAC 2023
  • 1st & 3rd Place of HackIN Hackathon (Hardware Reverse Engineering CTF), 2019 & 2021
  • 1st Place of “Network Security Venus Cup” Contest, 2016
  • Organizing Committee of AISCC Workshop (Co-located with NDSS), 2024
  • Reviewer and Evaluator of IDASH Privacy and Security Workshop, 2020–2022
  • Founder & Chair of Network Security Club at XJTU, 2016–2017