Experience

Beijing Childhood Shanghai SJTU · 2009–2013 Hong Kong HKUST PhD · 2013–2017 Beijing MSR Asia · 2017–2019 Redmond MSR → NVIDIA → Microsoft AI2019–present

Industry

Feb 2026 – Present
Microsoft
Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI
Redmond, Washington, USA
Led the end-to-end networking effort for the first-ever training of a Microsoft in-house MAI model on Ethernet.
Jan 2024 – Feb 2026
NVIDIA
Principal Software Research Architect, Networking Software and System Architecture Group
Redmond, Washington, USA
Contributed to Spectrum-X, NVIDIA's Ethernet networking platform for AI. Also contributed to the architecture and productionization of Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a next-generation RDMA transport deployed across hundreds of thousands of GPUs at OpenAI and Microsoft.
Aug 2019 – Jan 2024
Microsoft
Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond
Redmond, Washington, USA
Core contributor to what was likely the world's largest RoCE deployment at the time — RDMA over Converged Ethernet spanning Azure data centers up to 100 km apart and carrying over 70% of Azure traffic.
Jul 2017 – Aug 2019
Microsoft
Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia
Beijing, China
Started working on SONiC, the open-source network operating system that now powers cloud networks at scale.

Education

Sep 2013 – Jun 2017
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
Hong Kong SAR, China
Advisor: Prof. Kai Chen · Thesis: "Congestion Control Mechanisms for Data Center Networks" · Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship (2015)
Sep 2009 – Jul 2013
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
B.E., Information Security
Shanghai, China
Outstanding Bachelor Thesis Award (Top 1%)