Yizhou Shan
Research Scientist at Huawei Cloud
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYizhou Shan is a research scientist at Huawei Cloud with 11 years of experience focused on datacenter systems, distributed systems, networking, OS, and computer architecture. He holds PhD-level training from Purdue and UC San Diego and has a track record of industry research internships at Microsoft and VMware, including work that led to a US patent pending. His practical contributions span bare-metal virtualization, RDMA-based dataplanes, and optimizations for page-fault handling, reflecting a blend of systems research and hands-on implementation. Based in San Diego, he bridges academic rigor and cloud-scale engineering, routinely translating lab prototypes into production-minded solutions. An underappreciated strength is his consistent collaboration with top mentors and labs, which accelerates impactful, reproducible datacenter innovations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master Coursework, Master Coursework at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Beihang UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (67)
lattice10
xilinx10
linux10
linux-kernel10
fpga10
vivado10
kernel10
recipe10
osdi10
hardware10
ieee10
nic10
verilog9
persistent-memory9
persistent9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
WukLab/FPGA-OS
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:244 commits in 2 years
lastweek/NVM-Emulator
May 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 239 commits, 204 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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