Yuan Yao
I am currently a Backend Engineer on the Infrastructure team at Flexcompute.
Previously, I was a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Harsha V. Madhyastha. My research interests include networked systems, distributed systems, cloud computing, and serverless computing.
I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
: yyao3787 [at] usc [dot] edu
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Publications
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Cosmic: Cost-Effective Support for Cloud-Assisted 3D Printing [pdf]
2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC '25)
Yuan Yao, Chuan He, Chinedum Okwudire, Harsha V. Madhyastha
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Consistency Analysis of Data Usage Purposes in Mobile Apps [pdf]
2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '21)
Duc Bui, Yuan Yao, Jongmin Choi, Junbum Shin, Kang G. Shin
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Connecting high-resolution 3D chromatin organization with epigenomics [pdf]
2022 Nature communications
Fan Feng, Yuan Yao, Xue Qing David Wang, Xiaotian Zhang, Jie Liu
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GenomicKB: a knowledge graph for the human genome [pdf]
2023 Nucleic Acids Research
Fan Feng, Feitong Tang, Yijia Gao, Dongyu Zhu, Tianjun Li, Shuyuan Yang, Yuan Yao, Yuanhao Huang, Jie Liu
Experiences
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Software Developer, Jan. 2026 - Present
Flexcompute Inc., Boston, MA
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Teaching Assistant, May - Aug. 2025
CSCI 350 Intro to Operating Systems, University of Southern California
Prof. Bill Cheng
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Graduate Research Assistant, Aug. 2021 - May 2025
University of Michigan, University of Southern California
Prof. Harsha Madhyastha
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Teaching Assistant, Jan. - May 2024
CSCI 555/655 Advanced Operating Systems, University of Southern California
Prof. Harsha Madhyastha
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Undergraduate Research Assistant, Jan. 2020 - Aug. 2021
Liu Lab, University of Michigan
Prof. Jie Liu
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Teaching Assistant, May - Aug. 2019
VP141 Physics Lab I, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. Mateusz Krzyzosiak
Personal Trivia
🐕 Pull Request Approval Officer
A husky mix who sometimes acts as my code reviewer and occasionally takes over my Slack chats.