Zheng Yan
Cramer W. LaPierre Professorship In Engineering at University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Zheng Yan is the Cramer W. LaPierre Professorship in Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia with 26 years of experience bridging materials science, bioelectronics, and scalable device manufacturing. He leads a research group that designs multifunctional soft biomaterials and multimodal closed-loop bioelectronic systems for applications from cardiac care to neural interfaces, emphasizing long-term biocompatibility and cost-effective, single-use device manufacturing. His academic path spans Xi’an Jiaotong, Tsinghua, and a Ph.D. from Rice where he worked on graphene-based nanomaterials, followed by postdoctoral work with John Rogers on 3D bioelectronics. Beyond academia he contributes to open-source infrastructure—making technical back-end contributions to the widely used Ceph distributed storage project, particularly around CephFS subvolume and inode/directory management. Colleagues note his rare combination of deep materials chemistry expertise and practical systems-level engineering, enabling translation of lab concepts into manufacturable devices. Based in Columbia, Missouri, he focuses on healthcare impact through technology that is simultaneously sophisticated and accessible.
26 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Rice UniversityBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityMaster’s Degree, Materials Chemistry, Master’s Degree, Materials Chemistry at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
c1710
ceph10
locking10
storage10
filesystem10
c-language10
locks10
cprogramming-language10
c1110
linux-kernel10
back-end-development10
cephfs10
concurrency10
performance-optimization9
debug9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph
Jun 2012 - Feb 2021
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 2590 commits, 730 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Zheng made several contributions related to the Ceph File System (CephFS) in the ceph/ceph repository. Their work included implementing a command to manage required client features, fixing null pointer dereferences in the MDS cache, and optimizing code related to inode and directory management. The user also introduced a vxattr for setting the subvolume flag, and addressed issues related to rename, hard links, and snapshots within subvolumes.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
ukernel/ceph
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:175 commits, 6 PRs, 1397 pushes in 4 years 5 months
blob-storagefile-storagentfsazure-blob-storageceph
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