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Professor Yuan Ding is a Canada Research Chair in Systems Software at the University of Toronto, affiliated with the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and serving as Chair of the Computer Engineering Group. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2013 and was promoted to Professor in 2023.
- Education: PhD in Computer Science (2012) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering and B.S. in Mathematics (2006) from Beihang University
Research Interests focus on improving the reliability and performance of large-scale software systems, particularly distributed and systems software. His work addresses critical issues like upgrade failures, log compression, performance profiling, and non-intrusive debugging. Key methodologies include empirical studies of real-world failures, static analysis, and runtime optimization.
Publication Trends show expertise in operating systems, distributed systems, and software engineering. Recent work includes μSlope (log compression) and Relational Debugging (root-cause analysis), while earlier studies investigated JVM performance and distributed failure patterns.
- Scientific Awards: Canada Research Chair (2023), McCharles Prize (2018), NetApp Faculty Fellowship (2013–2016), ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper (2011), Saburo Muroga Fellowship (2006–2007), University Gold Medal (2005)
Advising & Collaborations: Supervised 15+ PhD and Master’s students, including Yongle Zhang (Purdue), Xu Zhao (Facebook), and Xiang Ren (Northeastern). Founded startup YScope to commercialize log compression tools like CLP, now deployed at Uber.
