Hongyi Guo
Research Scientist at ByteDance
Evanston, Illinois, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHongyi Guo is a research scientist with eight years of experience applying rigorous academic training to production-scale AI, currently working on Seed-LLM posttraining and AI agent development at ByteDance in Evanston. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern and a CS bachelor's from Shanghai Jiao Tong, blending optimization and systems thinking with deep learning research. Prior roles include multiple research internships at ByteDance focused on LLM alignment and at SJTU on coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning, signaling strong expertise at the intersection of learning, control, and alignment. His work bridges theoretical methods from his Ph.D. with practical model adaptation and agent orchestration in large-scale settings. Notably, he transitioned from academic research into industrial LLM safety and agent tooling, demonstrating both research depth and product-oriented execution. Fluent across research-to-deployment workflows, he brings a quantitative mindset to complex AI alignment and multi-agent problems.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial Engineering and Management Science at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (49)
sac10
mujoco10
optimization10
hydra9
reinforcement-learning9
benchmark9
parallel9
pytorch9
java9
python9
machine-learning9
gomoku9
ddpg9
leaderboard9
dqn9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gohsyi/cluster_optimization
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Course project of SJTU EE357: Computer Network, advised by Prof. Na Ruan
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 month
sjtureinforcement-learningcomputer-networkoperations-research
gohsyi/SegNet-ADDA
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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