He is a frequent speaker on the topic of AI, big data, cloud computing, and open source at conferences.
He attended Peking University, where he received a BS in Computer Science.
He then studied at Cornell University, where he received a MS in Computer Science.
He received his Computer Science PhD[1] from the UC Berkeley AMPLab, under the supervision of Prof. Ion Stoica and Prof. Scott Shenker.
Tachyon) open-source project,[4] which was commercialized by San Francisco Bay Area venture-backed company Alluxio, Inc.[1][5][6][7][8][9] He was a co-founder of Alluxio, Inc. During his PhD, he also co-created the Apache Spark Streaming project[10] and became an Apache Spark committer.