Chong Li
Principal Scientist Project Leader at Huawei Technologies
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, France
Summary
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Top SchoolChong Li is a Principal Scientist and project leader with nine years of experience designing and optimizing distributed AI and cloud-native systems, currently leading heterogeneous computing and performance work at Huawei's Paris Research Center. An IEEE Senior Member and former academic researcher, he bridges deep theoretical models (inventor of the SGL model) with practical implementations across Fog/Edge/Cloud, GPUs/NPUs and manycore architectures. His background spans industry and academia—from high-frequency trading HPC at EXQIM to research posts at National Institute of Informatics and Paris-12—giving him rare expertise in hard real-time distributed systems, large-scale graph processing and distributed deep learning. He contributes to open-source cloud-native tooling such as the Sermant service-mesh project, where he refactored agent cores and improved dynamic configuration and plugin management. Known for translating complex parallel programming models into production-grade compilers, runtimes and performance optimizations (including MindSpore tuning), he combines system-level rigor with hands-on engineering. Based in Shenzhen with strong ties to French research institutions, he often operates at the intersection of academic innovation and industrial deployment.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Doc, Post-Doc at University of Paris I: Panthéon-SorbonneESCP Business SchoolPh.D. High Performance Computing, Ph.D. High Performance Computing at Université Paris-EstÉcole nationale des ponts et chaussées
Chinese, Chinese, French, English
Github Skills (9)
plugin-development10
javas10
runtime-configuration10
autoconfiguration10
java10
spring-boot10
java-agent9
zookeeper9
service-mesh9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sermant-io/Sermant
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
A Cloud-Native Proxyless Service Mesh based on Java Bytecode Enhancement Technology
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:222 reviews, 37 commits, 59 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chong primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the core functionalities of the Sermant project. Their commits involved significant changes to the agent core, including refactoring package names, modifying header information, and improving the plugin management system. They also contributed to the dynamic configuration system, fixing issues and restructuring its architecture for better usability. Furthermore, they addressed issues with jar file handling and made changes to the example services.
meshdubbosermantkubernetesproxyless
HapThorin/Sermant
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 306 pushes, 80 branches in 1 year
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