Mao Yang的肖像

Mao Yang

Assistant Managing Director

关于

I (Mao Yang, 杨懋) received my Ph.D degree in computer science from Beijing University, China, in 2006. Before that, I received my B.S., M.S. in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Since 2006, I have been with Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, as researcher manager for Systems and Networking Research Group (Asia) (opens in new tab)

My research interests are in distributed systems, information retrieval systems, machine learning systems, and multimedia systems, especially for design, implement and deploy practical systems.

I am also an architect, and I worked on the following projects at Microsoft BING (opens in new tab) team:

  • The design and implementation of Cougar, a new ranking system for supporting the-state-of-art semantic ranking models. The system starts to serve all web queries since from 2013.
  • The design and implementation of Tiger, a new generation flash memory based index serving platform, and the system starts to serve all web queries since from 2012.
  • The design and implementation of replication and fail over protocol of Kirin, a new web store and processing system, and the system starts to process many billions of web data since from 2010.
  • Proposed a Web scale Q&A system that build into Web search engine. The system starts to provide directly answers in Bing since from 2016.

Some other research projects I’ve worked on include：

  • TLA Made Live: a formal method to build distributed systems.
  • The design and implementation of a large scale distributed storage system prototype PacificA. The protocol is also used by several open source projects, such as rDSN (opens in new tab), Kafka (opens in new tab).
  • Reconfiguration protocol for a paxos based replication state machine library.

My current research focus is on the AI infrastructure and Tools, and algorithms for Web search. We released several projects: