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Basics

Name Qingjie Lu
Label Building Resilient Systems & Secure Protocols
Url https://qingjielu.com
Summary My research interests span the intersection of data center systems, applied cryptography, and privacy. I focus on designing systems and large-scale tools to enhance the resilience, efficiency, and security of data centers, and on developing novel protocols to strengthen both large-scale data centers and public infrastructure.

Work

  • 2021.08 - 2022.08
    Algorithm Engineer
    Ruijin Hospital / Baiyi Data (Shanghai) Inc
    Enhanced RITnet for eye disease diagnosis by modifying its architecture with PyTorch and processing new datasets for retraining the model.
    • Adopted and enhanced RITnet for eye disease diagnosis
    • Modified architecture using PyTorch
    • Processed new data sets for retraining

Volunteer

Education

  • 2024.08 - Present

    Philadelphia, PA

    PhD
    University of Pennsylvania
    Computer and Information Science
  • 2022.01 - 2024.01

    Durham, NC

    Master of Science
    Duke University
    Computer Science
    • Operating Systems
    • Distributed Systems
    • Advanced Architecture
    • Advanced Networks
    • Computer Security
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Generative Models
    • Secure Software Systems
  • 2017.01 - 2021.01

    Rochester, NY

    Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of Arts
    University of Rochester
    Computer Science & Financial Economics
    • Design of Efficient Algorithms
    • Programming Language Design & Implementation
    • Computation & Formal Systems
    • Computer Architecture
    • Machine Learning
    • Web Development
    • Behavioral Economics

Certificates

Systems Software Verification Summer School Course
University of Michigan 2023-05-01
AWS Certified Developer
Amazon Web Service 2019-11-01
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Service 2019-11-01

Skills

Systems Development
xv6 programming
seL4
C
Formal Verification
Dafny
Verus
Cryptographic Protocols
Go
protocol implementation
ML & Deep Learning
PyTorch
NLP
Computer Vision
Web Development
React
Node.js
AWS

Languages

Chinese
Bilingual
English
Bilingual
German
Elementary

Interests

Research
Systems
Data Centers
Applied Cryptography
Privacy
Hobbies
Classic Guitar
Soccer
Audiobooks
Legal Studies
Taekwondo
History
Poker
Team Fight Tactics
Black Myth: Wukong

Projects

  • 2024.09 - Present
    Modeling Metastability
    Designed and implemented algorithms and simulation tools to detect potential metastable failures in data centers.
    • Algorithm design
    • Simulation tools
    • Metastability detection
  • 2023.09 - Present
    A Framework for Verifying Certificate Transparency Log Consistency
    Prototyped a protocol enabling anonymous reporting of web certificate entries with fault tolerance and ongoing security enhancements.
    • Protocol prototyping
    • Fault-tolerant implementation
    • Zero-knowledge proofs development
  • 2023.05 - Present
    Accountable IO on seL4
    Developed a prototype for Accountable IO on the seL4 microkernel, including a formal specification in Verus/Rust and exploration of kernel issues.
    • Formal specification
    • Fault tolerance
    • seL4 kernel exploration