Guokun Lai
Research Engineer at Moonshot AI
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolGuokun Lai is a research engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of deep learning and natural language processing, currently completing a PhD at Carnegie Mellon under Prof. Yiming Yang. He has held research roles at Moonshot AI, Inflection AI, ByteDance and internships at Google and Facebook, contributing to projects spanning language pretraining, machine translation and neural architecture search. His work blends academic rigor with industry impact, moving ideas from papers to production-facing research teams. Based in Beijing and trained at Tsinghua and CMU, he combines strong theoretical foundations with practical engineering across large-scale ML systems. An understated strength is his track record of navigating both elite research labs and fast-moving AI startups, making him effective at translating cutting-edge models into deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
pytorch1
points1
sequence-to-sequence1
machine-learning1
python1
time-series1
artificial-intelligence1
nlp1
deep-learning1
language-model1
sequence1
natural-language-processing1
facebook1
kernel1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
laiguokun/DSGC
Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
laiguokun/LSTNet
Oct 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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