Gina Yuan

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I'm a final-year Computer Science PhD candidate at Stanford. I previously studied Computer Science at MIT (B.S.'19, M.Eng.'19) with a concentration in systems.

I am interested in building secure, scalable systems and designing algorithms for high-performance networks. My current research involves designing Internet middleboxes that can provide performance enhancements to any encrypted protocol, such as QUIC, without protocol ossification.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

• Sidekick: In-Network Assistance for Secure End-to-End Transport Protocols [paper] [source] [slides] [podcast]
  Gina Yuan, Matthew Sotoudeh, David K. Zhang, Michael Welzl, David Mazières, Keith Winstein. NSDI 2024. Outstanding Paper Award! Community Award!
• Cornflakes: Zero-Copy Serialization for Microsecond-Scale Networking [paper] [source]
  Deepti Raghavan, Shreya Ravi, Gina Yuan, Pratiksha Thaker, Sanjari Srivastava, Micah Murray, Pedro Henrique Penna, Amy Ousterhout, Philip Levis, Matei Zaharia, Irene Zhang. SOSP 2023. Distinguished Artifact Award!
• Sidecar: In-Network Performance Enhancements in the Age of Paranoid Transport Protocols [paper] [source] [slides] [video]
  Gina Yuan, David K. Zhang, Matthew Sotoudeh, Michael Welzl, Keith Winstein. HotNets 2022.
• Offload Annotations: Bringing Heterogeneous Computing to Existing Libraries and Workloads [paper] [source] [slides] [video]
  Gina Yuan, Shoumik Palkar, Deepak Narayanan, Matei Zaharia. USENIX ATC 2020.
• Aurum: A Data Discovery System [paper] [source]
  Raul Castro Fernandez, Ziawasch Abedjan, Famien Koko, Gina Yuan, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker. ICDE 2018.

Other

• Extricating IoT Devices from Vendor Infrastructure with Karl [paper]
  Gina Yuan, David Mazières, Matei Zaharia. arXiv 2022.
• Scalable Fault Tolerance for High-Performance Streaming Dataflow [abstract]
  Gina Yuan. ACM Student Research Competition at SOSP 2019.
• Scalable Fault Tolerance for High-Performance Streaming Dataflow [thesis]
  Gina Yuan. M.Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2019.

Personal

• I started racing bikes with Alto Velo Racing Team and Stanford Cycling during COVID-19. A personal achievement I am proud of is podiuming the criterium, time trial (TT), and team time trial (TTT) at the 2023 collegiate national championships. I also had the opportunity of racing in a 5-day stage race against the country's best domestic pro teams at the Redlands Bicycle Classic in 2023.
• I competed with MIT Sport Taekwondo in my undergrad, and led the team to a national title in 2019 as team captain. I personally got 2nd in black belt flyweight sparring, and was the collegiate national champion in red belt poomsae in 2018.
• I ran Battlecode in 2018 and 2017. It was featured in Hacker News, Vice, and The Tech. We also hosted an IAmA that reached the front page of Reddit.