Xiaoyun is Principal Architect at HyperPilot (acquired by Cloudera). Prior to HyperPilot, Xiaoyun was a Staff Engineer at VMware focusing on developing automated resource and performance management solutions for virtualized datacenters and applications. She has co-authored over 50 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings, and holds 17 patents. Xiaoyun received her dual B.S. in Automation and Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2000.