My name is Ray, and I graduated from UC Berkeley BS+MS degree in EECS. I have been actively involved in blockchain research with publications and projects. My graduate research focuses in reinforcement learning agent for path planning at BAIR. In the past, I have been a part of Blockchain at Berkeley and have taken/taught courses in DeFi, and DeSys.
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Crypto Experiences
Senior SWE Farcaster
NEAR DeFi (Research Dev focusing in Ref/Burrow/Proximity)
Nethermind (Interned to help design Lido whitelisting upgrade)
Pontem Network (Aptos) (Protocol/Mechanism Research Analyst for concentrated AMM)
ThunderhoodLab (started a spin-out to build another DEX funded by NEAR Foundation)
Chicago Trading Company (Quant Analyst in Option Market Maker, Credit/ETF/CDS)
Abra Global (Manage DeFi strategies and overlook + deployed book size of 100MM USD)
Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (Mentor/Judge)
Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator (Mentor/Judge)
Blockchain at Berkeley (Developer, Educator, and Researcher)
UC Berkeley RDI (Web3/DeFi Course Staff, Researcher)
Algorand Foundation (Campus Developer Champion)
Blog/Articles/Paper
May 2024
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February 2024
Current State of execution environments coupled with consensus BFTs
January 2024
Blackhole Labs: Unlocking Liquidity through a Permissionless Approach to DeFi
November 2023
December 2022
Published an article focusing on DEX design and intergration, Discretized Liquidity AMM with Limit Orders (DL-AMM) as a part of Ref Finance (leading DEX on NEAR) and Izumi Finance (multichain DEX), the author behind DL-AMM.
November 2022
Published an article focusing on Not So Stable-coin: An Analysis of the Market and the US Stablecoin Bill as a part of Ref Finance, NEAR DEX.
May 2022
MS Thesis: Guided Reinforcement Learning for Planning, at UC Berkeley EECS!
April 2022
Published work on A Privacy Preserving Blockchain Powered Auction Platform. A special thanks to my colleagues (CL, EC) at Berkeley for their help and support.
December 2021
Published work on OpenSpace: An Improved NFT Marketplace Platform Using Flow. A special thanks to my colleagues (CL, EC) at Berkeley for their help and support.
Projects/Hackathons/Grants
Fellowships
DARPA (gov) Fellow, KP Fellow, Accel Fellow, Greylock Fellow, Draper Fellow, ZFellow and etc... (forgot)