Henry Zhu
PHD Student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Zhu is a PhD student and systems engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance distributed systems, including vector databases and key-value stores. His research and engineering work—published at FAST—focuses on storage and distributed filesystems for ML training and inference, and he has hands-on experience creating 1TB+ datasets on Hugging Face that have seen 100K+ downloads. He has scaled and debugged robot simulation test infrastructure at Amazon Robotics and contributed to open-source cloud tooling at SkyPilot, blending academic rigor with production-grade engineering. Henry also fine-tunes extremely large models (400B+ parameters), and his background includes low-level systems work such as lock-free multithreaded schedulers and JNI integration for graphics engines. Based in the United States, he pairs strong research credentials with practical product and infrastructure delivery, often surfacing subtle performance bottlenecks across stack layers.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 4.02/4.20, High School, 4.02/4.20 at Central High SchoolMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
automatic-differentiation9
cpp8
multimodal8
machine-learning8
llama8
large-language-models8
oop8
csharp7
deep-learning7
quantization7
tensorflow6
neural-network5
standard-library5
llm5
tensor3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Maknee/maknee.github.io
Jul 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 108 pushes, 20 branches in 6 years 8 months
Maknee/OOC
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
An framework that provides extensions to the standard library with object oriented design in C
Contributions:332 commits, 7 PRs, 287 pushes in 1 year 7 months
frameworkstandard-libraryextensionscsharpobject-oriented-design
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