Junxiao Shi
Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJunxiao Shi is a guest researcher at NIST with 21 years of software engineering experience focused on high-performance networking and systems software, currently building a Named Data Networking forwarder targeting 100 Gbps. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a B.E. in Information Security from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, blending rigorous academic training with practical data-center and backend engineering at MSN. An active open-source contributor, Junxiao has rewritten core ContentStore logic in the NFD forwarding daemon, authored key type definitions for ndn-js in DefinitelyTyped, and improved data-structure libraries across Go and TypeScript ecosystems. His skill set spans network simulation (ndnSIM), embedded IoT camera integration, and low-level forwarding/FIB/Face implementations, reflecting deep expertise in protocols and performance-sensitive code. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who surfaces subtle correctness improvements—like iterator typing and structural refactors—that materially increase maintainability and throughput.
21 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Security, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Security at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github Skills (37)
typesc10
javascript10
c-language10
typescript10
c1110
type-definition10
network-programming10
data-structure10
c1710
iterable10
type-system10
go10
sys10
network-protocol10
arduino-library10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
named-data/NFD
Dec 2014 - Apr 2022
Named Data Networking Forwarding Daemon
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:309 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Junxiao rewrote the ContentStore with a cleaner design in a series of commits. This involved modifications to the `cs.cpp` file and changes to the underlying data structures to support functionalities like searching with prefixes, minimum and maximum suffix components, and exclude components. The user's work was focused on the forwarding daemon's ContentStore table logic.
golangdaemonnfvnetworkingsdn
yoursunny/esp32cam
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
OV2640 camera on ESP32-CAM, Arduino library
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 42 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Junxiao's primary contribution involves importing and integrating code from another repository related to QR code functionality within the context of the ESP32-CAM project. They modified and refactored existing camera-related code, including files related to the internal workings of the camera, sensor initialization, and I2S communication. Further commits suggest improvements and cleanups of the code base by applying clang-format to ensure code style consistency and removing OV7725 support.
ov2640camcameraarduino-libraryesp8266
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