Yaoyao Ding is a Senior Research Engineer at CentML since July 2022, following experience as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Web Services from March 2021 to April 2022. Prior to this, Yaoyao served as a Research Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's HAN-lab in 2019. Yaoyao is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, expected to be completed in 2026, and holds a Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same institution, which was attained in 2022. Yaoyao completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2020.