| Name | Xinyi Yu |
| Location | Shanghai |
| Focus | Storage, Distributed Systems, Databases, and Systems Research |
Work Experience
Ant Group Research Institute, Computing Systems Lab, Asterinas OS
Research Intern
January 2026 - Present
Developing the Asterinas storage stack, including filesystem validation, VFS/ProcFS interfaces, and the ongoing Ext2 redesign.
Alibaba Cloud, PolarDB-MySQL Transaction and Storage Engine Team
Research Intern
March 2025 - January 2026
Designed and implemented an RDMA-based caching layer for OLAP and Lakehouse workloads, covering cache architecture, metadata management, and elastic memory recycling.
Datalayers
Database R&D Intern
March 2024 - August 2024 (Full-time), September 2024 - December 2024 (Part-time)
Built core components of the Datalayers query and storage engine, including the SQL execution pipeline, read path, and performance-critical write optimizations.