Sheng Yao

PhD Student at HKUST

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Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

My name is Sheng Yao. I’m a Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I’m advised by Prof. Wei Wang.

Before that, I spent a wonderful gap year as a Research Assistant at Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS) in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Zhaoguo Wang.

I enjoyed a three-month research advised by Prof. Cheng Tan from Northeastern University in 2022.

I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering in The Ohio State University. Once a Buckeye, Always a Buckeye. I received The Ganobcik Family/Genesis Endowed Scholarship Award during my undergraduate.

I have broad research interests in distributed system, cloud computing, and other related stuff.

Feel free to drop me an email for any potential collaboration. ^_^

Email: sheng [dot] yao [at] connect [dot] ust [dot] hk

news

Mar 14, 2025 I will serve as a member of MLSys 2025 AE Committee.
Aug 19, 2024 I will serve as a member of SIGMOD’24 ARI Committee.
Jun 18, 2024 Research Intern at Alibaba Cloud.
Nov 23, 2023 WeBridge accpeted by SIGMOD’24.

selected publications

  1. preprint
    λScale: Enabling Fast Scaling for Serverless Large Language Model Inference
    Minchen Yu, Rui Yang, Chaobo Jia, Zhaoyuan Su, Sheng Yao, Tingfeng Lan, Yuchen Yang, Yue Cheng, Wei Wang, Ao Wang, and Ruichuan Chen
    Feb 2025
  2. SIGMOD
    WeBridge: Synthesizing Stored Procedures for Large-Scale Real-World Web Applications
    Gansen Hu, Zhaoguo Wang, Chuzhe Tang, Jiahuan Shen, Zhiyuan Dong, Sheng Yao, and Haibo Chen
    in Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Jun 2024