About Yu Xu

Yu Xu is the founder and CEO of TigerGraph, a native parallel graph database. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Califoria San Diego. He is an expert in big data and parallel database systems and has 26 patents in paralell data management and optimization. Prior to founding TigerGraph, he worked on Twitter’s data infrastructure for massive data analytics. Before that, he worked as Teradata’s Hadoop architect where he led the company’s big data initiatives. Xu welcomes comments or questions and can be reached at [email protected]