Yihao Fang
Principal Researcher at Huawei Canada
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYihao Fang is a Principal Researcher and Ph.D. in Computer Science with nine years of experience at the intersection of distributed machine learning, NLP, and edge computing, currently working at Huawei Canada. He blends academic rigor—evidenced by award-winning LLM factuality work and industry-cited research—with hands-on entrepreneurship from founding Lexivalley, where he led teams building robotics, CV, and virtual teaching chatbot systems. Yihao has a strong track record of stakeholder-facing roles, securing funding from McMaster and J.P. Morgan, and partnering with organizations like Scotiabank to translate LLM-based attribution into business impact. He also brings production software experience from Oracle and Rogers, making him adept at moving research prototypes into operational systems. Based in Oakville, Ontario, he teaches and mentors graduate students, bridging theory and practice in machine learning theory and application. A less-obvious strength is his cross-domain fluency—spanning ERP systems to edge intelligence—which helps him design scalable ML solutions that respect real-world constraints.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at McMaster UniversityBachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at Tongji University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
neural-network10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
python10
data-science10
ml10
search-engine1
agent1
evolutionary1
chatbot1
p2p1
intelligent1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
fangyihao/hgot
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
fangyihao/llm-tutorials
Nov 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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