Xiaohu Yang is a professor at College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang University. He is the Director of Blockchain Research Center and Vice Director of Computer Software Institute at Zhejiang University, and an Adjunct Professor of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Zhejiang University (SIAS).

He is the co-founder of State Street Zhejiang University Technology Center, a joint research center set up in 2001 by State Street Corp. and Zhejiang University, for advanced research and development of global financial software systems and technologies. Since then, he has been leading the Technology Center, and brought it up from 15 people to more than a thousand people up-to-date.

His research interests include software engineering, blockchain, and cloud computing. He received his BSdegree, the MS degree and the PhD degree all in computer science at Zhejiang University in 1988, 1990, and 1993 respectively.