Sean Yang

Sean Yang is a system software engineer at NVIDIA, working on Project Aether with the Spark RAPIDS Accelerator team. Previously, he worked on federated learning systems with the NVIDIA FLARE engineering team. He holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on machine learning and distributed systems.
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Data Science Dec 17, 2025

Migrate Apache Spark Workloads to GPUs at Scale on Amazon EMR with Project Aether

Data is the fuel of modern business, but relying on older CPU-based Apache Spark pipelines introduces a heavy toll. They’re inherently slow, require large... 7 MIN READ