Zheguang Zhao
Research Fellow In Secure Systems at University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolZheguang Zhao is a research fellow in secure systems with 13 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, encrypted data systems, and large-scale data engineering. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from Brown University and has applied his research to real-world problems from building physics-inspired ML models for cyber-physical systems at Los Alamos National Lab to designing encrypted relational databases for the cloud. His career spans academia and industry—postdoctoral work in Germany, engineering roles at startups and database-focused teams, and research internships at Microsoft and Intel—giving him both deep theoretical grounding and production-grade systems experience. Zheguang is comfortable across languages and platforms (Scala, Julia, Spark, JuMP) and uniquely combines applied cryptography with ML for privacy-preserving analytics. Based in Melbourne, he brings a research-driven approach to secure, scalable data systems and a track record of translating theory into deployable technology.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Brown UniversityExchanged Program Research Internship Computer Science, Exchanged Program Research Internship Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
kafka-consumer10
spark-ml8
searchable7
delta7
apache-spark6
sink5
spark5
big-data4
kafka-connector4
cryptography4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zheguang/kafedb
Nov 2018 - Nov 2021
Mirror of Apache Spark
Contributions:1 release, 271 commits, 211 pushes in 3 years
deltabigdataspark-mlapachebig-data
zheguang/zheguang.github.io
May 2016 - Dec 2023
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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