Summary
Zuoru Yang is a senior research engineer at Huawei’s Data Storage Product Line with eight years of experience building distributed storage systems, HPC storage solutions, and device drivers for emerging media. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from CUHK’s Applied Distributed Systems Lab, where his work focused on data reduction, protection, and fault tolerance techniques such as deduplication, delta/local compression, encryption, trusted computing, and erasure coding. Zuoru’s background includes SDN/NFV verification and network security from Xi’an Jiaotong University and industry internships, giving him a rare blend of storage-system design and network-centric verification expertise. At Huawei he contributes to large-scale products like distributed NAS and OceanStor Pacific and integrates HPC filesystems (e.g., Lustre) with high-performance SANs. Known for both rigorous research (3.84/4.00 PhD GPA) and hands-on engineering, he bridges academic advances with production-grade storage engineering. Based in Haidian, Beijing, he often pairs system-level theory with low-level implementation work, such as device drivers for tape and novel storage media.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Visiting Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Technology, Top 1%; Ranking: 1/178; National Scholarship*2, Seagate Technology Scholarship, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Technology, Top 1%; Ranking: 1/178; National Scholarship*2, Seagate Technology Scholarship at Xi'an Jiaotong University
High School, High School at Beijing Zhongguancun High School
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.84/4.00, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.84/4.00 at 香港中文大学
English, Chinese