Fan Yang
Systems researcher, Research Manager of SRG@MSR-Asia
📬 yang DOT fan DOT acm DOT org
My name is Fan Yang (杨凡 in Chinese). I am a systems researcher and research manager of the Systems Research Group (SRG) at Microsoft Research Asia (MSR-Asia).
My research passion lies in Computer Systems. My recent focus is on exploring the fundamental principles of the systems for Artificial Intelligence (AI). I am among the first to discover and advocate the now well-known design principles for AI systems, including the hardware-aligned tile abstraction for AI compilers and the relaxed monotonicity for vector stores. Noreover, I am exploring ways to build a generic reasoning engine to solve complex intelligent tasks, including math, system engineering, and other important domains, using agentic and neuro-symbolic approaches.
As a researcher, I also engage in public academic services, including serving on the program committees of ASPLOS (2022), EuroSys (2023, 2025, 2026), OSDI (2026), SOSP (2026).
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- WaferLLM: A Wafer-Scale LLM Inference SystemIn 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI. An introductory article at ;login: , 2025