Ding Yuan

Ding Yuan is a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, holding the Canada Research Chair in Systems Software and serving as Chair of the Computer Engineering Group. His research focuses on improving the availability and performance of large-scale software systems, with notable tools like CLP (used by Uber) and YScope startup co-founded with PhD students.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Research Focus: Systems software, log compression/search, distributed system failures, and performance debugging
• Advising Alumni: Yongle Zhang (Purdue Assistant Professor), Xu Zhao (Facebook Research Scientist), Xiang (Jenny) Ren (Northeastern Assistant Professor), Kirk Rodrigues and David Lion (YScope co-founders)
• Scientific Recognition: Canada Research Chair, McCharles Prize, Gordon Slemon Teaching Award, Student Choice Award, Meta 2022 Systems Research Award
• Teaching: Courses like ECE344 (Operating Systems), ECE1759 (Advanced OS), ECE454 (Systems Programming)
• Leadership: Program Co-chair at SOSP, HotOS, APSys; Vice-Chair of ACM SIGOPS