Hong Tang

About

Hong currently serves as Chief Architect at Alibaba Cloud Computing (AliCloud). Hong joined Alibaba in 2010 and is instrumental in the development of the Apsara cloud platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for AliCloud. Prior to Alibaba, he was a Director of Search System Infrastructure at the fourth largest search engine company Ask.com. Later in 2008, he joined Yahoo’s Cloud Computing team as a Senior Principal Engineer, driving the research and development of Hadoop. Hong has nineteen years’ research and industrial experience in high- performance computing and parallel systems, cluster-based distributed computing and storage systems, large-scale Internet services, and cloud computing. Hong received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University in 1997, and the Doctoral’s degree from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003. Dr Hong Tang was elected as an Innovative Talent in the national Recruitment Program of Global Experts in 2014 (aka National Tho

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San Francisco, US