Hongyi Sun
Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolHongyi Sun is a software engineer specializing in machine learning with nine years of industry and research experience, currently working on Ads Identity Modeling at Meta after building search infrastructure at Google. He holds a BS in Computer Science (cGPA 3.99) from the University of Toronto and is pursuing an MS in Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard, with cross-registration at MIT. His research blends computer vision and ML—neural scene representations, 3D reconstruction, and differentiable rendering—with publications including work on accelerating coordinate-based MLPs (ICLR 2022). Hongyi has applied this research in practical settings from autonomous driving simulators to high-performance video drivers at Qualcomm and low-latency data pipelines for quant trading. Based in Mountain View, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with hands-on systems and infra experience, often optimizing models and pipelines for speed at scale.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Cross-registered, EECS, Cross-registered, EECS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard UniversityHonour Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, cGPA 3.99/4.00, Honour Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, cGPA 3.99/4.00 at University of TorontoProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisSun06/Position-Based-Fluid-Simulation
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
nexuslrf/CoordX
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 2 months
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