Gina Yuan

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I am a Software Engineer at Databricks on the Host Networking team. I graduated from Stanford with a PhD in Computer Science in 2025. My research was in computer networks, including transport protocols and the application of set reconciliation techniques to in-network proxies. I previously studied Computer Science at MIT (B.S.'19, M.Eng.'19).

Selected Publications

• In-Network Retransmissions for Encrypted Transport Protocols [source]
  Gina Yuan^*, Thea Rossman^*, Keith Winstein.
  Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2026.
• Internet Connection Splitting: What's Old is New Again [source] [slides] [video]
  Gina Yuan, Thea Rossman, Keith Winstein.
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2025.
• Sidekick: In-Network Assistance for Secure End-to-End Transport Protocols [source] [slides] [podcast]
  Gina Yuan, Matthew Sotoudeh, David K. Zhang, Michael Welzl, David Mazières, Keith Winstein.
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2024.
  Outstanding Paper Award! Community Award!
• Cornflakes: Zero-Copy Serialization for Microsecond-Scale Networking [source]
  Deepti Raghavan, Shreya Ravi, Gina Yuan, Pratiksha Thaker, Sanjari Srivastava, Micah Murray, Pedro Henrique Penna, Amy Ousterhout, Philip Levis, Matei Zaharia, Irene Zhang.
  ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) 2023.
  Distinguished Artifact Award!
• Sidecar: In-Network Performance Enhancements in the Age of Paranoid Transport Protocols [source] [slides] [video]
  Gina Yuan, David K. Zhang, Matthew Sotoudeh, Michael Welzl, Keith Winstein.
  ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) 2022.

^*Indicates equal contribution

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.