Associate Professor · Shenzhen University
Open Networks and Systems for Trustworthy Intelligence
My research sits at the intersection of networking, artificial intelligence, and cryptographic security. Intelligent services, from AI agents to collaborative learning, increasingly run on open networks and systems, where participants cannot simply trust one another. This leads to three lines of research: how intelligent computation can be made trustworthy and verifiable with tools such as zero-knowledge proofs, how AI agents can coordinate over networks, and how decentralized systems such as blockchains can operate efficiently and at scale without centralized trust.
I received my Ph.D. in Information Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015, advised by Prof. Soung-Chang Liew. Before that, I earned my M.S. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2011 and my B.S. degree in Electronic Information Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2008.
From 2015 to 2016, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Network Coding of CUHK. I joined Shenzhen University in 2016, and I am currently an Associate Professor in the College of Electronics and Information Engineering. I am also affiliated with the Guangdong Provincial Social Science Research Base for FinTech and Digital Economy.
My long-term goal is to build working systems rather than study isolated algorithms. My research began in wireless networking: during my Ph.D. at CUHK, I worked on physical-layer network coding and later on learning-based multiple access. It then extended to blockchain and decentralized networks, and now focuses on where open networks meet AI: how intelligent participants coordinate, and how their computation can be verified.
This direction studies how AI models and agents can be made trustworthy and verifiable, from model training, fine-tuning, and inference to the decisions and actions agents take. Topics include zero-knowledge proofs, privacy-preserving computation, verifiable machine learning, and verifiable agent execution, with particular attention to the trade-off between rigorous guarantees and system performance.
This direction studies how agents discover one another, share capabilities, and make decisions together over networks. Topics include agentic P2P networks, coordination mechanisms for LLM multi-agent systems, and agent-driven network optimization, with particular attention to the trade-off between collaboration gains and communication overhead.
This direction studies how blockchain and decentralized systems can operate efficiently and at scale without centralized trust. Topics include blockchain network protocols, decentralized identity, and Web 3.0 application systems, with particular attention to the trade-off between decentralization and system performance.
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