Rui Zhou
PhD Student & Teaching Assistant at UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Zhou is a PhD student and teaching assistant in History at UC Santa Barbara with a decade of professional experience blending research, teaching, and program coordination. Their background spans interdisciplinary research roles in history and economics, nonprofit event management and fundraising, and hands-on student outreach that once raised $3,000 in a semester. Rui has demonstrated project leadership—organizing a TED-style LGBT conference in China, co-managing social channels to more than double engagement, and coordinating dozens of volunteers—alongside rigorous academic inquiry. Based in Santa Barbara, they emphasize evidence over words ("Talk is cheap, show you my code") and bring a practical, results-oriented approach to scholarship and community work. Notably, their experience combines quantitative research on nonprofit effectiveness with creative public programming, making them effective at translating research into real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Asian Studies/Civilization, Bachelor of Arts, Asian Studies/Civilization at Colorado CollegeDoctor of Philosophy, HISTORY, Doctor of Philosophy, HISTORY at UC Santa Barbara
Russian, English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
database9
devops9
concurrency9
high-performance9
time-series9
observability9
monitoring9
timeseries-database9
iot9
scalability8
distributed-systems8
optimizer8
relational8
influxdb7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhouruiapple/ClickHouse
Nov 2021 - Nov 2023
ClickHouse® is a free analytics DBMS for big data
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years
data-analyticsanalyticsdbmsmysqlsql
zhouruiapple/arrow
Jul 2022 - Sep 2024
Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
datalogmemorymulti-languagetoolboxslice
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