Experience
Work
Co-Founder, Scroll
2021 – 2025
- Raised $80M from top tier VCs and angels (i.e. Vitalik), peak valuation at $1.8B, report [EN/CN]
- Built a global team from 2 to 100+ across 10+ different countries, hired the first ~20 core team members manually by outreach
- Designed the first zkEVM and shipped production proving infrastructure. Till now, Scroll has secured $1.5B capital, processed 100M+ transactions, saved $100M fees for users, with no downtime
Research Assistant
2018 – 2021
- 2020–2021, NYU: Designed verifiable privacy-preserving network protocols, advised by Prof. Michael Walfish
- 2019–2019, UIUC: Worked on verifiable privacy-preserving auction protocols using MPC, advised by Prof. Andrew Miller
- 2018–2020, PKU: Built hardware acceleration for zkSNARK proving, advised by Prof. Mingyu Gao and Prof. Guangyu Sun
Education
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Ph.D. (drop out), Computer Science
2020 – 2021
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Researcher
2019 – 2019
Peking University
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
2016 – 2020
Selected awards and honors
New York University MacCracken Fellowship (5 years)
2020
Merit Student Award (5% of students)
2019
DTZ Scholarship (Top 2 in department)
2019
National Innovative Research Funding (5% of students)
2019
Merit Student of Pacesetter Award (1% of students)
2018
Arawana Scholarship (Top 1 in the department, highest amount)
2018
The first prize in Chinese Mathematics Competitions
2015
The second prize in Chinese Physics Competitions
2014