Summary
Hao Fu is a Staff Research Scientist with nine years of experience building scalable, security-aware systems across major tech companies in the Bay Area. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Davis, he has driven research-to-production work at Meta and Instagram on retrieval, ranking, search, and notification systems, and earlier contributed to autonomous vehicle safety at DiDi. His background blends machine learning, network traffic analysis, and mobile security with practical engineering—optimizing Spark/Hive pipelines, multi-threaded Kafka consumers, and detection tooling used in Android bot analysis. Based in Newark, CA, Hao is comfortable moving between deep research and hands-on implementation, often surfacing novel defenses and performance improvements that make systems both smarter and faster.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Jiangnan University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Beijing No. 12 High School