Yi-xi Chen
PHD Student at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Tainan Metropolitan Area Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolYi-xi Chen is a PhD student in computer science at KAUST with eight years of experience applying programmable networking and distributed systems to real-world problems. Trained at Tsinghua (MS) and National Cheng Kung University (BE), Yi-xi has deployed programmable switches into 5G research at NUS and built automated testing for live VM migration at ITRI, blending low-level systems work with practical deployment. Their research framing—treating agentic systems as distributed execution environments—reflects a cross-cutting interest in networking, orchestration, and real-time control. Comfortable across frontend fixes for public services and deep-network research, Yi-xi brings both interdisciplinary collaboration experience and hands-on implementation skills. Based in Tainan, Taiwan, they combine academic rigor with pragmatic engineering, often surfacing system-level insights that aren’t obvious from model-centric views alone.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)Bachelor, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor, Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (50)
kernel10
tee10
rust9
semantics6
benchmark4
solidity4
testing4
benchmarking4
virtual-machine4
java4
blockchain4
ethereum4
ieee3
android3
smart-contracts3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chenIshi/tutorials
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
P4 language tutorials
Contributions:105 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
p4-language
chenIshi/catchment-basin-seeker
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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