Yigong Hu
Assistant Professor at Boston University
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolYigong Hu is an assistant professor and systems researcher with eight years of experience bridging rigorous academic research and hands-on systems development. After earning a PhD in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins, he held a system postdoc at the University of Washington where he focused on scalable, reliable systems research before joining Boston University as faculty. His work spans experimental systems, distributed computing, and applied research practice informed by long-term lab experience dating back to Huazhong University of Science and Technology and a summer at the University of Chicago. Colleagues know him for turning complex research prototypes into reproducible artifacts and for mentoring students through the full research-to-implementation lifecycle. Based in Brookline, MA, he blends deep technical rigor with practical engineering, often emphasizing reproducibility and system-level evaluation that isn’t obvious from titles alone.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
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Github contributions (5)
OrderLab/leaseos_frameworks_base
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:133 commits in 6 months
gongxini/pbox_mysql
Apr 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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