Summary
Xinying Yang is a database research lead with seven years of experience building auditable, tamper-resistant database systems and ledger products across ByteDance, Alibaba, Huawei, and IBM. She drives applied research into trusted databases—publishing first-author papers at SIGMOD and VLDB—and has pioneered array-based authenticated data structures, TEE-enabled enclave databases, and hardware-assisted trusted RDBMS designs. As founder of LedgerDB at Alibaba she took a centralized blockchain-like product to public beta serving nearly 100 customers and led the Copyright Blockchain consortium that anchored millions of rights proofs on-chain. A prolific inventor and patent leader, she has hundreds of granted patents and has repeatedly translated research into production-grade systems and industry partnerships. Trained as a PhD in Automation Science and Electrical Engineering at Beihang University, she blends deep systems theory with practical fintech and enterprise deployments.
7 years of coding experience