Fan Yang
About Me
My name is Fan Yang (杨凡 in Chinese). I am a systems researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSR-Asia), where I lead Systems Research Group (SRG).
My research focuses on intelligent computer systems. In particular, I am interested in uncovering the fundamental principles that guide the design of systems in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). My work has helped establish several ideas now widely used in AI systems, including hardware-aligned tile abstractions for AI compilers and relaxed monotonicity for vector stores. I am also exploring a general-purpose reasoning engine for complex tasks in mathematics, systems engineering, and other domains by combining agentic and neuro-symbolic approaches.
I also contribute to the broader research community, including through service on the program committees of ASPLOS (2022); EuroSys (2023, 2025, 2026); OSDI (2026, 2027); SOSP (2026).
We are recruiting interns the whole year, details here.
News
- Argus agent, our general-purpose reasoning engine, is released
- On a podcast discussing AI reasoning
- USENIX ;login: published our article on WaferLLM (OSDI'25)
- VentureBeat covered rStar2-Agent
- rStar-Math and LIPS picked as "the most groundbreaking AI papers from the first half of 2025" by Turing Post