Fan Yang

Fan Yang is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Boston University and the lead of Google’s networking protocol team. He specializes in internet architecture and protocol engineering, notably driving Google’s industry-first deployment of HTTP/3 over QUIC, which significantly improved latency for Google services. His research focuses on optimizing network protocols, satellite communications, and OFDM systems.

Education: PhD in Computer Science from the University of Delaware (2015), where he worked in Professor Paul D. Amer’s Protocol Engineering Lab.

Research Interests: Developing scalable internet protocols, enhancing TCP and multipath TCP performance, and applying advanced signal processing techniques to wireless communication challenges. His work bridges theoretical protocol design with real-world internet-scale deployment.

Key technical contributions include QUIC protocol specifications, non-renegable selective acknowledgments (NR-SACKs), and channel estimation methods for OFDM systems. His publications span topics from HTTP/3 implementation to satellite-based TCP optimizations.

Labs/Teams: Previously associated with the Protocol Engineering Lab at University of Delaware. Currently leads Google’s networking protocol team responsible for cutting-edge internet infrastructure projects.