About the Author

Zhiming Zhou

Ph.D, Full Stack Programmer, Computer Book Writer, Technical Evangelist, Cloud Native Architect, Most Valuable Professional, HLLVM/PLDI Enthusiast

Programmer
Huawei Grade 7 Expert, a programmer who also takes on some management and research responsibilities. Primarily engaged in the architecture and development of large-scale enterprise software. As chief architect, participated in major transformation projects such as MetaERP and MetaCRM. In his spare time, he continuously follows developments across multiple domains related to computer science.
Researcher
Ph.D in Science, Director of the Enterprise Application Teaching and Research Office at Huawei. Former Dean of the YGSoft Research Institute, and Director of the Macau University of Science and Technology - YGSoft Joint Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Research interests include machine learning, feature engineering, and automated feature selection.
Computer Book Author
Author of nine published computer books and three open-source technical documents, all well received by both readers and the industry. Among them, "The Fenix Project" was starred over 10,000 times on GitHub, six books have received ratings of 9.0 or higher on Douban, and the "Understanding the Java Virtual Machine" series has been reprinted over 45 times, with sales exceeding 400,000 copies.
- 2026 Designing Machine Learning Applications (open-source document, in progress)
- 2025 The Boundary of Intelligence: From Turing Machines to Artificial Intelligence (Second Edition) (Douban 9.1)
- 2021 The Fenix Project: Building Reliable Large-Scale Distributed Systems (Douban 9.4)
- 2020 Exploring Software Architecture: The Fenix Project (open-source document)
- 2019 Understanding the Java Virtual Machine: JVM Advanced Features and Best Practices (Third Edition) (Douban 9.5)
- 2018 The Boundary of Intelligence: From Turing Machines to Artificial Intelligence (Douban 9.4)
- 2016 Understanding the Java Virtual Machine: JVM Advanced Features and Best Practices (Second Edition) (Douban 9.1)
- 2015 The Java Virtual Machine Specification (Java SE 8 Chinese Edition) (Official Licensed Translation, Douban 8.4)
- 2014 The Java Virtual Machine Specification (Java SE 7 Chinese Edition) (Official Licensed Translation, Douban 9.0)
- 2013 Understanding OSGi: Equinox Principles, Applications, and Best Practices (Douban 7.7)
- 2011 Understanding the Java Virtual Machine: JVM Advanced Features and Best Practices (First Edition) (Douban 8.6)
- 2011 The Java Virtual Machine Specification (Java SE 7 Chinese Edition) (open-source document)
Technical Evangelist
An active advocate and promoter of open-source technologies, Most Valuable Professional of major domestic cloud computing vendors, media contributor, and conference speaker.