fxlin
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SeniorFelix Lin is a seasoned AI infrastructure researcher and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience spanning academia and industry. As Senior Research Scientist for AI Infrastructure at ByteDance and an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, he specializes in model-and-system co-design for large language models and generative AI, focusing on practical real-time serving, on-device inference, and hardware-aware optimization. His work ranges from real-time speech model serving (arXiv:2412.11272) and on-device LLMs to memory-efficient stream analytics and the exploration of a new OS in 2025, reflecting a hands-on approach to bridging research with production-scale systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Rice University, with prior professorship at Purdue University and advanced degrees from Tsinghua University (BS MS), demonstrating a strong foundation in both theory and applied engineering. His current research interests include optimizing LLMs for NPUs and quantized kernels for GPUs, underscoring a commitment to performance at scale in heterogeneous hardware. Based in the Bay Area, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor, industry pragmatism, and leadership in AI infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
operating-systems10
hardware10
linux9
ranking9
tee9
operating-system9
kernel9
embedded9
react8
computer-science8
science8
bare3
typescript2
pi2
raspberry-pi-32
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fxlin/p1-kernel
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
A tiny, modern kernel on real hardware
Contributions:3 releases, 216 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 7 months
kerneloperating-systemsoperating-systemtinylinux
fxlin/RWKV-LM
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:185 pushes, 7 branches in 8 months
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