I'm the founder of Alt Research and AltLayer Network , an elastic and versatile scaling protocol for Web3. Before 2022, I was the director/GM of Parity Asia , which provides blockchain infrastructure (say OpenEthereum and Polkadot ) for the decentralised Web. I'm selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, 2019.
Prior to that, I was the co-founder and CTO of Zilliqa . I led the efforts of designing and building the very first public blockchain platform with full-fledged sharding features including network/transaction/smart contract sharding. Meanwhile, I drived the collaboration with Xfers on the stablecoin initiative for Southeast Asia StraitsX . I also participated in blockchain projects with Mindshare , Singapore Exchange , Hg Exchange , etc.
Before 2018, I was a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore . I got my Ph.D. in School of Computing at NUS in 2017.