Yuanjun Yao
Senior Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolYuanjun Yao is a Senior Research Scientist based in Menlo Park with 11 years of experience specializing in network infrastructure and wide-area network traffic engineering at Meta and Facebook. He blends deep academic training—a PhD in Computer Science from Duke and a BE from Tsinghua—with hands-on systems work, including intern contributions at VMware on NSX controller transaction replay and Differential Datalog for span computation. Yuanjun focuses on turning research ideas into production-ready traffic engineering solutions that scale across global networks. Known for bridging theory and practice, he brings rigorous algorithmic thinking to operational challenges in large-scale networked systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Duke UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BE), Automation, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Automation at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (27)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
numpy9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
gpu-acceleration8
autograd8
acceleration8
tensor8
vscode6
vim6
rest6
vscode-extension6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yaoyj11/trafficgeneration
Nov 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
RENCI-NRIG/CICI-SAFE
Jun 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:11 PRs, 415 pushes, 56 branches in 3 years 9 months
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