Yarong Mu — CTO
Leadership & Collaboration - Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills to effectively work with senior leadership. - Proven ability to influence and build consensus across diverse teams, including research scientists, MLEs, SWEs, PMs, and cross-functional teams (BD, legal, PR, marketing, UXR). - Experience in identifying and growing key stakeholders, managers, and team members. Strategic Project Management - Expertise in independently managing and leading complex, multi-year privacy-preserving projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders with varying interests. - Demonstrated problem-solving skills to tackle complex system challenges and drive long-term strategic initiatives. System & Privacy Expertise - In-depth knowledge of large system analysis, including the impact of changes in interconnected systems handling super high QPS throughput. - Extensive experience in privacy technologies such as Differential Privacy, Federated Learning, Federated Analytics, Private Information Retrieval, Trusted Execution Environments, and Secure Multi-Party Computation. - Proficient in DP budgeting, DP notions, DP techniques, DP ops, and DP cost functions, with hands-on experience in TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX on various architectures (CPUs, GPUs, confidential CPUs like SEV-SNP/TDX, and confidential GPUs like Nvidia H100). Engineering & Cloud-Native Architecture - Solid understanding of cloud-native best practices, including control-flow/data-flow separation, storage/processing separation, micro services, server-less infrastructures, and sandboxing. - Expertise in business logic isolation design, ensuring verifiable privacy and security for compliance/audits while maintaining proprietary business logic. Team Management & Leadership - Proven track record in managing, developing, and growing engineering teams. - Demonstrates a leadership style that leads by example and by providing context.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in privacy technology and AI/ML solutions within the AdTech and SaaS industries.
Location: Kirkland, Washington, United States
Experience: 25 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Differential Privacy
- Federated Learning
- Data Monetization
Career Highlights
- Expert in privacy-preserving AI/ML algorithms.
- Led successful projects in high-stakes environments.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams.
Work Experience
Senior Staff Software TLM (13 yrs 2 mos)
Bloomberg L.P.
Senior Software Developer (2 yrs 7 mos)
General Atomics
Research Collaborator (2 yrs 9 mos)
University of Toronto
PhD (5 yrs 10 mos)
University of Science and Technology of China
Bachelor of Science (3 yrs 10 mos)
Education
PhD at University of Toronto
BS at University of Science and Technology of China
