Ahan Gupta is a 4th-year CS PhD student at UIUC specializing in accelerating generative AI systems, with eight years of software and research experience spanning industry and academia. He has blended theory and practice across roles at Google DeepMind (KV-cache compression for generative models), Google, Citadel, and NUS labs, plus internships that improved operational metrics and saved costs in production systems. His research background covers high-performance computing for AI, formal methods for distributed systems, and theoretical reinforcement learning, giving him a rare cross-cutting perspective on model efficiency and system reliability. A proven mentor and educator, he led TA teams at NUS with top teaching scores and brings leadership honed as a decorated sergeant in the Singapore Armed Forces. Notably, he applies low-rank and systems-level techniques to make large models more serveable in real deployments, bridging cutting-edge research with production constraints.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, International Baccalaureate Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at UWC South East Asia
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at NUS University Scholars Programme
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Contributions:1 release, 48 PRs, 110 pushes in 2 months
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Ahan Gupta - Student at Semiconductor Research Corporation