Dr. Yu is a seasoned technologist with 20+ years of experience in distributed computing, big data, and AI.  Currently he is CTO of Axle, building secure and trusted AI agents that automate manual workflows for financial compliance and risk.

 

Previously he served as Head of Engineering for Airwallex, a cross-border payment decacorn. Before Airwallex, he was the CTO of AsiaInfo Data, an enterprise data and AI company where he led a product organization of 1600 engineers covering 10 industry verticals with 12 product lines. He was responsible for a distributed data platform that processed over 8PB of new data daily, supporting more than 1 billion mobile subscribers. Before AsiaInfo, Dr. Yu served as VP Engineering and Chief Architect for Mafengwo, the largest online travel community in China, with over 100 million users. Prior to that, he was VP Engineering and Chief Architect at OpenX, the second largest global ad exchange (next to Google), performing 50 billion RTB transactions per day. He was responsible for the company’s data strategy, mobile product line, and overall architecture, consisting of more than 6000 servers and 15PB of data distributed in 5 global data centers.

 

 

Dr. Yu holds PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales and BS in Computer Sciences and BA in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has published papers and gave keynote speeches in numerous major international conferences.