Siyuan Yu (sih-ywen yü)

Bio

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Confluent, where I work on distributed systems as part of the Kafka - Kora Orchestration Global team. Previously, I was a founding engineer at Swift Charge Inc., building the software backbone for EV charger management systems from the ground up. Later, I developed LLM tools to streamline causal analysis at Stanford University.

I was also a member of the SODA Lab at the University of Alberta, where my research focused on economics and computation, algorithmic game theory, and decision making under uncertainty. I am forever indebted to Prof. Xiaoqi Tan for his mentorship, as well as the support and opportunities provided by Alberta Innovates, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and Technology Alberta.

In my downtime, I find joy in classical and choral music. Amongst my favourites, Beethoven's Violin Concerto holds a special place in my heart. You can also find me scrambling in the beautiful Canadian Rockies.