Chunjiang Che is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Duke University, advised by Prof. Kartik Nayak. He received his M.Phil. degree in Internet of Things from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) in 2024, where he was advised by Prof. Xuechao Wang and Prof. Songze Li. He previously earned his Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Sun Yat-sen University in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Chuan Chen.

Research Interest

My research lies in the field of distributed systems, with key interests in:

• Scaling blockchain architectures to support high-throughput applications
• Optimizing performance and communication efficiency in federated learning frameworks

My work is supported by both rigorous theoretical analysis and practical system implementations.

Education

• Duke University (2025.8-present)
  PhD in Computer Science
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (2022.9-2024.10)
  MPhil in Internet of Things
• Sun Yat-sen University (2018.9-2022.6)
  BS in Software Engineering

Selected Publications

• Manifoldchain: Maximizing Blockchain Throughput via Bandwidth-Clustered Sharding
  Chunjiang Che, Songze Li, Xuechao Wang
  NDSS 2025
• A Decentralized Federated Learning Framework via Committee Mechanism With Convergence Guarantee
  Chunjiang Che, Xiaoli Li, Chuan Chen, Xiaoyu He, Zibin Zheng
  TPDS

Awards

• 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement Award in HKUST(GZ)
• The 45th ICPC Asia Regional Contest Gold Medal (with Tailin Chen and Jiawei Tan)
• 2022 Sun Yat-sen University ACM School Competition First Prize