Yihan Zou is a Research Scientist at ByteDance, focusing on traffic engineering control and bandwidth management for wide-area networks, along with network troubleshooting tools to enhance incident response and availability. Yihan Zou's experience includes a Research Assistant role at Purdue University, specializing in network optimization for large-scale communication systems, resource allocation, and distributed systems. Yihan Zou holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, a Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) with First Class Honour in Information Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.