Yitao YANG, Ph.D. student Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Supervisor: Professor Hong Xu, Henry Co-supervisor: Professor Baochun Li

BIOGRAPHY

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof. Hong Xu and co-supervised by Prof. Baochun Li. Previously, I received my B.Eng. from The Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) in 2023. My research interests lie primarily in the area of AI Agent for Network and AI Infrastructure, and Machine Learning Systems (MLSys).

CONTACT

• Email: ytyang [at] cse.cuhk.edu.hk
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• AI Agent for Network and AI Infrastructure

• Efficient Distributed Training & Inference Systems

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Aug. 2023 - Present

• B.Eng. Computer Science and Engineering, The Northwestern Polytechnical University, Sep. 2019 - Jul. 2023

PUBLICATION

• TSGuard: Automated User-Centric Incident Diagnosis for AI Workloads in the Cloud
  Yitao Yang, Yangtao Deng, Yifan Xiong, Baochun Li, Hong Xu, Peng Cheng
  ACM FSE, 2026
  

• Towards End-to-End Optimization of LLM-based Applications with Ayo
  Xin Tan, Yimin Jiang, Yitao Yang, Hong Xu
  ACM ASPLOS, 2025
  

• Arlo: Serving Transformer-based Language Models with Dynamic Input Lengths
  Xin Tan, Jiamin Li, Yitao Yang, Jingzong Li, Hong Xu
  ACM ICPP, 2024
  

• Adaptive Gating in Mixture-of-Experts based Language Models
  Jiamin Li, Qiang Su, Yitao Yang, Yimin Jiang, Cong Wang, Hong Xu
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
  

EXPERIENCE

• Intern, ByteDance Network Observability, Mar. 2025 - Nov. 2025
  Mentor: Shixian Guo, Zhuo Jiang
  Outcome: OneNet Agent, a unified observability platform for ByteDance Network Group (deployed in ByteDance)

• Research Intern, MSRA Network Infrastructure Group, Apr. 2024 - Jan. 2025
  Mentor: Yifan Xiong
  Topic: AI agent for incident diagnosis in AI infrastructure
  Outcome: TSGuard@FSE'26

• Visiting Student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Oct. 2022 - Jun. 2023
  Topic: Efficient MoE Training Systems

TEACHING

• 2023 Fall: CSCI4430 Computer Networks

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

• Full Postgraduate Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023 - 2027

• SAMSUNG Scholarship, SAMSUNG, 2020 - 2021

• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, 2019 - 2020

• Pacemaker to Merit Student, The Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2019 - 2020