Role: Project Member · Amount: 1,079,924 SGD (Cash + Funding + In-Kind) · Period: Oct 2024 – Sept 2025
- Helped design and build a scalable decentralized GPU computing infrastructure for AI and Web3 workloads.
- Personal contribution: ~10%.
Research and Development of Mesh Gold
Role: Project Member · Amount: 510,000 SGD (Cash + Funding + In-Kind) · Period: Oct 2023 – Oct 2024
- Assisted the core team on consensus protocol design and development.
- Personal contribution: ~20%.
Development of Layer One Blockchain
Role: Lead PI · Amount: 1,541,370 SGD (Cash + In-Kind) · Period: Mar 2023 – Mar 2024
- Led a 10+ member team to develop a next-generation Layer-1 blockchain.
- Mainnet Hela launched in 2024 and has run stably since.
- Results distilled into the paper “MStableChain: Towards Multi-Native Stablecoins in EVM-Compatible Blockchain for Stable Fee and Mass Adoption” (in submission).
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Computation (Grant No. 2020B121201001)
Role: Project Member · Amount: 3,000,000 RMB · Period: Feb 2020 – Jul 2022
- Conducted research on load balancing for blockchain sharding.
- Outcome: LB-Chain (first-author publication).
Intelligent Analysis Techniques on Gastrointestinal Mucosal Lesions (Grant No. JCYJ20180507181527806)
Role: Project Member · Amount: 2,000,000 RMB · Period: Mar 2019 – Mar 2022
- Studied efficient smart-contract execution in sharded blockchains.
- Outcome: Jenga (first-author publication).
Hong Kong RGC GRF 16202121 — High Concurrency Blockchain Sharding
Role: Project Member · Period: Aug 2021 – Jan 2022
- Worked on high-concurrency and secure sharding.
- Outcome: CoChain (first-author publication).
NSFC Young Scientists (Grant No. 61173156)
Role: Project Member · Amount: 265,000 RMB · Period: Jan 2018 – Dec 2020
- Investigated incentive mechanisms for location-verification services.
- Outcome: Incentivizing WiFi-based Multilateration Location Verification (first-author IoTJ 2021).
Hong Kong Smart City Development — iOS Software
Role: Project Member; Team Lead for iOS Development · Period: Sept 2016 – Sept 2019
- Led development of an iOS application for the Smart City project.
Role: Project Member · Amount: 2,000,000 RMB · Period: Sept 2016 – Aug 2018
- Researched privacy-preserving and secure task allocation in decentralized crowdsourcing.
- Outcomes: Privacy-Preserving Task Assignment for Fully Distributed Spatial Crowdsourcing (IoTJ 2021) and Towards Efficient and Deposit-Free Blockchain-Based Spatial Crowdsourcing (TOSN 2024).
Task Allocation & Incentive Mechanism for Mobile Crowdsourcing (Grant No. JCYJ20160531190935987)
Role: Project Member · Amount: 300,000 RMB · Period: Jul 2016 – Jun 2018
- Studied task selection and scheduling in food-delivery crowdsourcing.
- Outcome: Task Selection and Scheduling for Food Delivery: A Game-Theoretic Approach (GLOBECOM 2018).