Zixuan Yang

PhD Candidate at Nanjing University

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Nanjing University. My research focuses on computer systems, networking, and AI infrastructure, with an emphasis on practical systems for large-scale production workloads.

State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology
Nanjing University · Nanjing, China

Portrait of Zixuan Yang

Research

I design systems that connect accurate modeling with practical optimization, from production network scheduling to multimodal model inference.

Selected publications

Full list on Google Scholar
  1. NeurIPS 2026

    Rethinking Diffusion Decoding via Structural Commitment

    Lipeng Wan, Anbang Wang, Zixuan Yang, Kun Xu, Xiuxiu Bai, and Xuguang Lan

    Improves diffusion language model generation efficiency by jointly decoding reliable token groups that have limited dependence on the remaining masked positions.

Experience

Alibaba Cloud

AI Infrastructure Software–Hardware Co-design Intern · Shanghai

Built a high-fidelity simulator for large-model inference that was used for multimodal hardware selection and future system design. Also designed scale-up communication for disaggregated training and inference workloads across vLLM, SGLang, and AReal.

Tencent · WeChat Group

Network Infrastructure Intern · Shenzhen

Developed adaptive scheduling systems for WeChat C2C and real-time communication services. The C2C work led to a publication and patent submission, while RTC optimization reduced call latency by more than 40%.

Education

Nanjing University

PhD Candidate, Computer Science and Technology

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Bachelor, Computer Science Experimental Program

Recognition

2023, Second Prize, Future Network Technology Innovation Competition, for work on regional IP anycast deployment and performance.