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🎓 Education

🏫 Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD, USA

Ph.D. in Computer Science (Jun 2025 – Present)
Advisor: Prof. Matthew D. Green
M.S. in Computer Science (Security Informatics) (Aug 2023 – May 2025)

🏫 National Tsing Hua University · Hsinchu, Taiwan

B.S. in Computer Science & Power Mechanical Engineering (Sep 2017 – Jun 2021)

💼 Work Experience

💻 Nethermind — ZK Research Engineer ｜ Intern

📍 Remote, United Kingdom ｜ 🗓️ May 2024 – Jun 2025

Project: PLONK Verifier in Cairo
Developed and open-sourced the first PLONK verifier written in Cairo within the Starknet ecosystem.
Reduced 65% of CairoVM step counts by implementing Karatsuba fast extension field algorithms and writing circuit-optimized Algebraic Intermediate Representation (A.I.R.) code for higher efficiency.

💻 Chelpis Quantum Tech. — Blockchain/Cryptography Software Engineer

📍 Taipei, Taiwan ｜ 🗓️ Dec 2021 – May 2023

Product: Custody
Designed and implemented a cryptocurrency vault securing multi-million dollars’ worth of digital assets for custodial and staking services.
Implemented and integrated wallet services on multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, Near, and Cardano, using multi-party computation (MPC) signing algorithms and cryptographic system engineering.
Developed a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used by over 2,000 hardware devices in collaboration with Infineon, employing TPM to construct a 4-level key hierarchy for embedded systems.
Built NFT smart contracts minted by over 1,000 users and developed backend services for an NFT marketplace supporting atomic swaps across ERC20, ERC721, and ERC1155 tokens via 0x protocol v3.

💻 Blockchain Security Corp. — Backend Software Engineer ｜ Intern

📍 Taipei, Taiwan ｜ 🗓️ Jan 2021 – May 2021 ｜ Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

Reduced 95% of data storage usage and improved comparison algorithm performance by 33% by extracting characteristic values from images and text for plagiarism detection.
Hosted and maintained six IPFS network nodes within the company for persistent storage of digital evidence.

🛠️ Skills

🧩 Programming Languages

Rust, Cairo, Go, Solidity, C, C++, Python, Circom, Typescript

🧩 Dev Tools

Linux, AWS, MySQL, RESTful API, Docker, Git, Kafka, C4 Model, PlantUML

🪶 Publications

Paper Title Number 5, with math \(E=mc^2\)

Your Name, You. (2024). "Paper Title Number 3." GitHub Journal of Bugs. 1(3).

Paper Title Number 4