Fan Yang

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I am currently a systems researcher and research manager of the Systems Research Group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSR-Asia). I joined MSR-Asia after receiving my doctoral degree and bachelor’s degree in computer science at Nanjing University.

My research passion is on computer system. Recently I have been exploring the fundamental principles behind the systems that support emerging applications, e.g., machine learning based intelligent tasks. I am an architect of the machine learning systems OpenPAI, NNFusion, and NNI, which have been used by Microsoft products like Bing and Azure. As open-source projects, these systems also have a growing number of external users across the world.

In the past, I worked on graph systems. The graph systems I co-developed like GraM set a new speed record for trillion-scale graph analytics and have been used by Bing to improve Ads coverage and web mining. I also contributed to SCOPE, Microsoft’s big data engine. I helped re-architect and optimize the SCOPE-based analytic pipeline of Bing Ads team, improving its processing capacity by more than 50%, which generated tens of millions of dollar of additional revenue.