Fan Lai
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFan Lai is an Assistant Professor at UIUC who blends machine learning, systems, and computer networking to build scalable, efficient ML and data analytics platforms from the cloud to planetary scale. With eight years of research experience, including a PhD from the University of Michigan and visiting stints at Google (GenAI Systems) and Meta AI, he translates cutting-edge systems research into practical infrastructure for pervasive ML. His work emphasizes end-to-end efficiency and deployment at scale, bridging academic rigor with industry-driven problems. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he is notable for moving rapidly between academia and industry research labs, bringing production-minded perspectives to foundational systems challenges.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of MichiganBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (19)
pytorch10
benchmark10
machine-learning10
hexo10
osdi10
federated-learning10
extensible10
scalable10
warmup10
federated10
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
computation7
cloud-computing7
distributed-systems3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SymbioticLab/Oort
Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:214 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
SymbioticLab/ModelKeeper
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
A Cluster-Wide Model Manager to Accelerate DNN Training via Automated Training Warmup
Contributions:86 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
pytorchcloud-computingmachine-learning-systemsdeep-learningmachine-learning
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