Weitao Wang
Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeitao Wang is a software engineer and computational theoretician with 11 years of experience focused on network, distributed, operating, and heterogeneous systems. Based in Houston, he has a long-standing relationship with Google—progressing from multiple internships and student researcher roles into a full-time engineering position—while pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Rice University. His work blends systems research and production engineering, translating theoretical insights into scalable infrastructure and performance improvements. Curious and detail-oriented, he favors simple, naive theoretical approaches to tackle complex systems problems, often bridging academia and industry. Fluent in both rigorous research and hands-on software development, he brings deep systems expertise and a pragmatic mindset to large-scale engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Rice UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (7)
congestion-control9
ns38
algorithm6
jekyll-theme6
textbook1
science1
computer-science1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Clark5/Clark5.github.io
Apr 2017 - May 2025
My Website
Contributions:11 PRs, 250 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
jekyll
Clark5/Poseidon
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
A NS-3 implementation of Poseidon congestion control algorithm (NSDI 2023).
Contributions:8 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
congestion-controlns3
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