Yi Zou
Staff Research Scientist at Intel Corporation
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolYi Zou is a Staff Research Scientist with 26 years of experience building high-performance, distributed storage and converged networking systems at Intel and beyond. He specializes in large-scale architectures for hyper-converged and disaggregated storage, heterogeneous media and NVMe/NVMeoF interconnects, and intelligent workload analytics for multi-tenant cloud environments. Yi pairs deep kernel and driver expertise (Linux/Windows, ixgbe/FCoE, RDMA/iSCSI) with data-platform skills across Ceph, Hadoop/Spark and real-time video analytics, enabling end-to-end storage solutions from hardware offload to cloud services. He has a proven track record upstreaming kernel storage features and advancing Intel’s 10G/40G FCoE stacks, and his open-source contributions reflect a focus on storage performance and network offload. Holding a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, he combines rigorous research with pragmatic system design and a history of solving low-level bottlenecks that unlock large-scale data processing.
26 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sichuan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at Duke UniversityMaster's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (4)
linux-kernel10
scsi10
c-programming9
networking9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Feb 2009 - May 2011
Digispeaker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:119 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yi primarily contributed to the SCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support within the Linux kernel's ixgbe driver. Their work included adding FCoE-related features, implementing large send and receive offloads, and integrating FCoE with the net device. They also addressed various issues related to FCoE configuration and statistics gathering, demonstrating a focus on enhancing network performance and functionality for storage area networks.
openSUSE/open-fcoe
Aug 2008 - Feb 2012
Contributions:24 commits in 3 years 6 months
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