Haichen Shen is a Co-Founder and technical leader with 12 years of experience building AI and systems software, currently leading General Intelligence Labs after co-founding Scroll Tech and serving as CTO. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and has blended deep research experience with production engineering through roles at AWS AI and internships at Google and Microsoft. Haichen contributes to prominent open-source infrastructure—most notably Apache TVM—where he focused on core expression evaluation and operator correctness for compiler internals, reflecting a strong backend and compiler expertise. His background spans research, product, and low-level implementation, making him as comfortable prototyping novel ML systems as shipping robust, performance-sensitive code. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning research ideas into deployable infrastructure across both startups and large tech organizations.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Washington
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Open deep learning compiler stack for cpu, gpu and specialized accelerators
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:62 reviews, 135 commits, 249 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Haichen primarily fixed bugs and implemented features related to the `rdiv` operator in the `tvm` repository, specifically within the Python code. These fixes involved modifications to the `expr.py` file, indicating a focus on core expression evaluation and operator definitions. Additionally, the user contributed by checking in basic variables and adding expression simplification and canonicalization functionalities, demonstrating an understanding of the compilation process.
Contributions:79 commits, 23 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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