Wei Hu
Professor at Nanjing University
Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China
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Top SchoolWei Hu is a computer scientist and professor at Nanjing University with nine years of postdoctoral-level experience leading research and teaching in software and theory since earning a PhD from Southeast University. He has a strong academic trajectory including visiting roles at Stanford, University of Toronto, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, blending international collaboration with sustained university leadership from assistant to full professor. Practically minded in software engineering, he contributes to open-source backend projects like Alluxio, improving code quality and test maintainability for cloud data orchestration. His profile reflects a balance of rigorous research, hands-on code hygiene, and mentoring, and he often bridges theoretical foundations with pragmatic systems improvements that make large analytics platforms more robust.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Software and Theory, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Software and Theory at Southeast University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (7)
javas10
alluxio10
java10
testing10
orchestrate9
orchestration9
data-analysis8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Alluxio/alluxio
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Alluxio, data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:47 commits, 55 PRs, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Wei primarily focused on code maintenance and improvement by addressing code quality and consistency issues. Their contributions involved applying variable names in preconditions, which enhances code readability. Furthermore, the user refactored tests by incorporating static imports for standard test utilities across multiple files. This suggests a focus on improving code maintainability and test quality within the Alluxio codebase.
data-analysisvirtual-distributed-filesystemanalyticsorchestrationdata-science
HUWEIWEI0105/jdk8u-dev
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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