Zuoru Yang (杨祚儒)
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Ph.D. |
About me
Zuoru Yang is currently a storage expert at Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Alibaba Cloud.
Previously, he was a senior research engineer in the Storage Product Line at
Huawei. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong (CUHK) in 2022. At CUHK, he was a member of the
Applied Distributed System Lab (ADSLab),
supervised by Prof. Patrick
P. C. Lee. He received his B.Eng. degree from the
Department of Computer Science and Technology,
Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2018. At XJTU, he worked with
Prof. Peng Zhang on Software-Defined
Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) (e.g., designing
debug and verification tools for SDN and NFV).
His research interests lie in storage systems, specifically applying data
reduction techniques (e.g., deduplication, delta compression, and local
compression), data protection techniques (e.g., encryption and trusted
computing), and fault tolerance techniques (e.g., erasure coding) to various
storage systems for improved storage efficiency, security, and fault tolerance.
'Be rigorous in your work' 'Work hard — maintain a regular routine' 'Stay objective and dispassionate' 'No pain, no gain'
Job Experience
Elastic Block Storage, Alibaba Cloud (May 2026 – Present), Storage Expert.
Storage Product Line, ICT, Huawei (Nov. 2022 – May 2026), Senior R&D Engineer.
OceanStor Pacific, OceanDisk + Lustre, AI DataLake (Local Catalog), Tape
Education
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Aug. 2018 – Sep. 2022), Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Supervised by Prof. Patrick P. C. Lee
Xi'an Jiaotong University (Sep. 2014 – Jul. 2018), B.Eng. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science & Technology, Supervised by Prof. Peng Zhang
University of British Columbia, Canada (Jul. 2016 – Aug. 2016), Visiting Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Selected Awards
Huawei Gold Team Award: 2025
Huawei Future Star*2: 2024, 2025
CUHK Postgraduate Studentship: 2018–2022
ICDCS Student Travel Grant Award: 2018
Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis Award at Xi'an Jiaotong University: 2018 link
Outstanding B.Eng. Graduate at Xi'an Jiaotong University: 2018 link
China Computer Federation Elite Collegiate Award (ECA): 2017
Chinese National Scholarship*2: 2016, 2017
Seagate Technology and Innovation Scholarship: 2017
Title of “Annual Outstanding Student” at Xi'an Jiaotong University*3: 2015, 2016, 2017
U.S. Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM): Meritorious Award (2016), Honorable Mention*2 (2017, 2018)
Siyuan Scholarship: 2015
2013 Dongrun-Yau Science Award (Math track), Silver Award (with Runda Ji and Hongyuan Fu), as reported by People's Daily: link
Publications
Jia Zhao, Zuoru Yang, Jingwei Li, and Patrick P. C. Lee. "Encrypted Data Reduction: Removing Redundancy from Encrypted Data in Outsourced Storage."
Accepted in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2024. (CCF-A)
[pdf] [software]Zuoru Yang, Jingwei Li, and Patrick P. C. Lee. "Secure and Lightweight Deduplicated Storage via Shielded Deduplication-Before-Encryption."
Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), Carlsbad, CA, USA, July 2022. (AR: 64/393=16.3%, CCF-A)
[pdf] [slides] [tech report] [software] (Awarded with USENIX artifact badges: Available, Functional, Results Reproduced)Zuoru Yang, Jingwei Li, Yanjing Ren, and Patrick P. C. Lee. "Tunable Encrypted Deduplication with Attack-Resilient Key Management."
Accepted in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2022. (CCF-A)
[pdf] [software]Yanjing Ren, Jingwei Li, Zuoru Yang, Patrick P. C. Lee, and Xiaosong Zhang. "Accelerating Encrypted Deduplication via SGX."
Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), Virtual, July 2021. (AR: 64/341=18.8%, CCF-A)
[pdf] [slides] [software]Jingwei Li, Suyu Huang, Yanjing Ren, Zuoru Yang, Patrick P. C. Lee, Xiaosong Zhang, and Yao Hao. "Enabling Secure and Space-Efficient Metadata Management in Encrypted Deduplication."
Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2021. (CCF-A)
[pdf] [doi] [software]Xiaolu Li, Zuoru Yang, Jinhong Li, Runhui Li, Patrick P. C. Lee, Qun Huang, and Yuchong Hu. "Repair Pipelining for Erasure-Coded Storage: Algorithms and Evaluation."
Accepted in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2021. (CCF-A)
[pdf] [doi] [software]Peng Zhang, Fangzheng Zhang, Shimin Xu, Zuoru Yang, Hao Li, Qi Li, Huanzhao Wang, Chao Shen, and Chengchen Hu. "Network-Wide Forwarding Anomaly Detection and Localization in Software-Defined Networks."
Accepted in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2020. (CCF-A)
[pdf] [doi]Jingwei Li, Zuoru Yang, Yanjing Ren, Patrick P. C. Lee, and Xiaosong Zhang. "Balancing Storage Efficiency and Data Confidentiality with Tunable Encrypted Deduplication."
Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, April 2020. (AR: 43/234=18.4%, CCF-A)
[pdf] [slides] [software]Peng Zhang, Shimin Xu, Zuoru Yang, Hao Li, Qi Li, Huanzhao Wang, and Chengchen Hu. "FOCES: Detecting Forwarding Anomalies in Software-Defined Networks."
Proceedings of the IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Vienna, Austria, July 2018. (AR: 78/378=20.6%, CCF-B)
[pdf] [slides]Runda Ji, Hongyuan Fu, Zuoru Yang, and Min Wei. "The Geometrical Analysis of the Path of Free Kick."
In the Archives of Yau Mathematical Science Center, Tsinghua University.
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Teaching Assistant Experience
2018–2020 ENGG1110: Problem Solving by Programming (C)
2018–2019 CSCI4190: Introduction to Social Networks
2019–2020 CSCI1530: Computer Principles and Java Programming (Java)
2020–2021 CSCI4180: Introduction to Cloud Computing and Storage
2020–2021 CSCI4430: Data Communication and Computer Networks
2020–2021 AIST3020: Introduction to Computer Systems