Xin Yao received his PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2020. He is currently working as a researcher in Theory Lab, Hong Kong Research Center, Huawei.

Research interests

• Scalable distributed systems (AI & Big Data)
• Consistency & consensus protocols
• Learned index & storage system (Compression)
• NVM/Fault tolerance
• Erasure coding
• Federated learning
• Cache prefetching
• DPU and in-network computation
• Compiler