Cheng Yi

Cheng Yi is an accomplished software engineering professional with extensive experience in high-performance networking and software development. Notable roles include Staff Software Engineer at Google from September 2019 to April 2024, focusing on next-generation high-performance virtual networking technologies such as IPU/SmartNIC offloading. Previous positions include Staff Engineer at Alibaba Group, where responsibilities encompassed network modeling and automation, and a tech lead role at Cisco Tetration Analytics. Cheng Yi's career began at Glodon Software Co. Ltd as a Software Engineer and included a significant research role as a Graduate Research Associate at The University of Arizona, specializing in Green Networking and Named Data Networking. Cheng Yi holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Software from Tsinghua University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Arizona, achieving a perfect GPA of 4.0.