Ahan Gupta
Student at Semiconductor Research Corporation
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAhan 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.
9 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 AsiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at NUS University Scholars ProgrammeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Chinese, Hindi, English
Github Skills (58)
pytorch10
mixture-of-experts10
machine-learning10
inference10
data-parallelism10
deepspeed10
gpu10
compression10
distributed-training9
deep-learning9
python8
statistics8
data-science7
authorization7
authentication7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spikerheado1234/main
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
:ab::four: Address Book sample application (Level 4)
Contributions:106 pushes in 1 month
addresssample-applicationfourjavaaddress-book
spikerheado1234/auth-service
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
[WIP] Authorization and Authentication Service. Currently for PISP workstream but likely for others down the line
Contributions:147 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
authentication-serviceauthorizationwipauthenticationoauth2
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