Haoran Qiu
Research Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHaoran Qiu is a Research Engineer at Microsoft Azure Research with nine years of experience building systems for AI efficiency and sustainability, focusing on agentic AI and cloud-scale optimization. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at UIUC after a research-rich trajectory that includes internships and visiting roles at Google, IBM, and Microsoft, plus systems research at UW–Madison and HKU. Haoran blends deep academic rigor from DEPEND group work with hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, having contributed to Google Cloud and Microsoft cloud-efficiency projects. His background spans both research and production: he moves ideas from papers to implementable systems that improve ML/AI operational costs. Based in Redmond, he’s comfortable at the intersection of systems research, large-scale engineering, and sustainability—often finding practical knobs to make AI workloads measurably cheaper.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Computer Science, Visiting Student Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (52)
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
k8s10
nvidia-docker9
docker8
azure8
network-protocol8
azure-functions8
nvidia8
docker-run7
go7
cuda7
gpu6
microsoft-azure6
high-resolution6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
James-QiuHaoran/Othello
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
gameothello-gamejavascriptopponentothello
James-QiuHaoran/James-QiuHaoran.github.io
Oct 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:141 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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