Yifan Mao
Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Mao is a research scientist and PhD candidate in computer science at The Ohio State University with nine years of engineering experience focused on computer networks and cryptocurrency. Based in Menlo Park, he recently transitioned to Meta after interning there, bringing research-driven thinking to large-scale systems problems. His tooling and language interests span Scheme, LLVM, and programming language theory, reflecting a low-level systems and PLT background not always obvious from a networking-focused profile. Combining academic rigor with industry impact, he bridges protocol research and practical implementation in production environments.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Fudan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (30)
chez-scheme10
racket10
code-golf10
scheme10
mojo10
stack-based9
polyglot9
language-design9
programming-language8
compiler7
julia6
linux6
systemd5
benchmarking5
system4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maoif/chezpp
May 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:88 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 1 month
maoif/ChezScheme
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Chez Scheme
Contributions:32 commits, 61 pushes, 9 branches in 10 months
chez-scheme
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