He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in 2017. He is interested in computer systems, including operating systems, systems architecture, systems security, distributed systems, and especially the intersections of them. He enjoys building systems. His research contributions have been published at top-tier computer systems, architecture, and security conferences. His work WearDrive won the Best Paper Award at USENIX ATC in 2015 and attracted popular press coverage across many countries. His work FlashMap won the IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention in 2016. Most of the technologies he has developed have had an impact on industrial and real-world systems, some of them are being transferred into products.