Yifan Yuan
Senior Research Engineer at Meta
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Yuan is a Senior Research Engineer with eight years of experience advancing computer architecture and cloud systems, currently working on AI systems co-design at Meta. He specializes in bridging hardware and software for cloud infrastructure, focusing on CXL, RDMA, NFV, smartNICs, accelerators, and programmable switches to boost performance, efficiency, and scalability. Yifan earned his MS and PhD from UIUC, where his research on in-network computing, I/O, and memory subsystems led to multiple top-tier publications and several US patents. Before Meta he contributed to systems architecture at Intel Labs and spent time at Microsoft Research, bringing both industrial and academic perspectives to pathfinding projects. He combines deep research rigor with practical prototyping—an often-overlooked strength that helps move novel ideas from papers to deployable platforms.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Tianjin Yaohua High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, computer architecture and systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, computer architecture and systems at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Engineering - BE, electronic and computer engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, electronic and computer engineering at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
cloud-application10
cpp10
gremlin9
graph8
data-science7
analytics7
big-data7
react6
tcp5
typescript5
nextjs5
fpga4
network2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
YifanYuan3/YifanYuan3.github.io
Oct 2019 - Feb 2023
personal website repo
Contributions:78 commits, 7 PRs, 115 pushes in 3 years 4 months
reactnextjstypescript
FAST-UIUC/iat-pqos
Apr 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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