Yu Xu

Current

• Research Staff at Teradata

Past

• CTO & co-founder at Startup Company
• Staff Software Engineer at IBM

Education

• University of California, San Diego
• Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Connections

21 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Yu Xu’s Summary

Summary
Mr. Xu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California, San Diego. His research on web and information management ranges from keyword search, phase matching, and parallel data warehouse. He was on the Technical Program Committee of Internal Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2006. He has industry experience on data management from AT&T Labs Research and IBM Research. He was one of the members of the startup (Enosys) which developed the first generally available XML based information integration system acquired by BEA Systems. He was CTO and co-founder of an internet startup which has built a scalable web system utilizing an XML search engine to crawl, index and aggregate information across the internet and provide relevant real time information for its clients. He is currently a researcher at Teradata, the global leader on data warehouse, working on the broad area of parallel computing for efficient management and processing of increasing data volume. He has published over 12 papers at top database conferences, and has 13 US patents pending in the areas of information retrieval and parallel computing. His experience in academic research, industry and startup offers a unique perspective.

Yu Xu’s Specialties:

parallel computing, data warehouse, database management, Hadoop, MapReduce, information retrieval in semi-structured data, keyword search in XML documents, spatial databases, scalable web system development

Yu Xu’s Experience

• Research Staff

  Teradata

  (Public Company; TDC; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  Advanced Development & Enterprise Architecture
  
  Responsible for researching and developing new features for Teradata's parallel database management system in the next 3-5 years;
  13 patents pending in the broad area of parallel computing including Hadoop DFS and parallel data warehouse integration, data skew handling /load balancing, join optimization, efficient system upgrade/resizing, information retrieval, and efficient database support for BI tools (business intelligence).
  publication available at
  http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/x/Xu:Yu.html

• CTO & co-founder

  Startup Company

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)

  developed a scalable web system which utilizes a special search engine to crawl, index and aggregate RSS feeds across the internet and provides relevant real time information for its clients.

• Staff Software Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2005 — May 2006 (8 months)

  worked on XML and XQuery related features inside the IBM DB2 engine.

Yu Xu’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  Ph.D , Computer Science , 2005

• Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  MS , Computer Science , 1999

Additional Information

Yu Xu’s Websites:

• My Website

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