Guoqiong Song is a Senior Software Engineer at Intel with a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and eight years of experience applying quantitative modeling, machine learning, and big-data analytics to real-world problems. He blends deep domain expertise in climate and remote sensing with production ML engineering—contributing to Intel's ipex-llm to optimize and enable LLM inference/finetuning on Intel XPU hardware. Previously he translated atmospheric modeling skills into telecom-scale data science at Verizon, giving him strength in scalable data pipelines and statistical predictive modeling. Comfortable bridging research and product, he routinely adapts cutting-edge transformer libraries for deployment and streaming use cases. Based in Milpitas, CA, he brings a rare combination of numerical modeling rigor and hands-on systems optimization for ML workloads.
Accelerate local LLM inference and finetuning (LLaMA, Mistral, ChatGLM, Qwen, Mixtral, Gemma, Phi, MiniCPM, Qwen-VL, MiniCPM-V, etc.) on Intel XPU (e.g., local PC with iGPU and NPU, discrete GPU such as Arc, Flex and Max); seamlessly integrate with llama.cpp, Ollama, HuggingFace, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vLLM, GraphRAG, DeepSpeed, Axolotl, etc
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:20 reviews, 107 commits, 150 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Guoqiong primarily contributes to integrating and implementing Large Language Models (LLMs) on Intel XPU. Their work includes adding examples for running different LLM models like Aquila, Dolly, and others using the BigDL-LLM framework and transformers. They address issues related to model compatibility and performance, incorporating optimizations for GPU and CPU environments, and specifically focus on enabling streaming LLM functionality. The user is also involved in adapting the code for newer versions of the transformer libraries and fixing model-specific integration issues.
BigDL: Distributed Deep Learning Library for Apache Spark
Contributions:2 PRs, 426 pushes, 77 branches in 6 years 10 months
bigdldeep-learningmachine-learningapachespark
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Guoqiong Song - Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation