Zhengyi Yang
ARC Early Career Industry Fellow at University of Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolZhengyi Yang is an ARC Early Career Industry Fellow and founder with 10 years of experience combining academic research and practical systems engineering in databases, data mining, and AI. Based in Sydney, he has progressed from PhD research at UNSW to teaching as an Associate Lecturer and holding industry-facing roles including a visiting database scientist and a Google software engineering internship. He founded Euler AI to translate research insights into applied products while maintaining active collaboration with universities and industry partners. Zhengyi’s work bridges rigorous database systems research and real-world deployments, with a track record of mentoring students and contributing to cross-disciplinary projects. Notably, his career blends formal training from UCL and a UNSW PhD with hands-on startup and industry fellowship experience, reflecting both scholarly depth and entrepreneurial drive.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University College LondonUNSW Sydney
Chinese, English
Github Skills (41)
controlled9
vldb9
synchronization9
lock-free9
rust8
data-structures8
concurrency8
futures8
dataflow7
encoder7
benchmarking7
bitset7
decoder6
neo4j6
concurrent-programming6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UNSW-database/GraphDB-Benchmark
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Hosting the code and scripts for benchmarking 4 graph databases - Neo4j, AgensGraph, LightGraph, and TigerGraph
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
agensgraphbenchmarkinggraph-databaseneo4jtigergraph
zhengyi-yang/WhoIsTheSpy
Feb 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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