Hongyuan Mei
Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHongyuan Mei is a machine learning researcher and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building models for sequential data, time-stamped event prediction, and natural language understanding. He co-founded a stealth AGI startup after leading reasoning and AI4Science efforts as a tech lead at xAI, where he was a key contributor to Grok reasoning models and helped ship Grok in Tesla. His career spans senior research roles at Google DeepMind and TTIC and research internships at Microsoft and Bloomberg, combining deep academic rigor (PhD, Johns Hopkins) with production-grade AI deployment. Hongyuan’s work often blends alignment-style sequence modeling and coarse-to-fine neural aligment techniques, reflecting an uncommon focus on both practical system delivery and principled model design. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he moves fluidly between research and engineering, accelerating research ideas into shipped products. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-disciplinary background in financial mathematics and signal processing, which informs robust, data-efficient modeling approaches.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.) Financial Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.) Financial Mathematics at University of Chicago
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (43)
python10
acceleration10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
gpu10
neural-network10
autograd10
tensor10
gpu-acceleration10
nearest-neighbors9
similarity9
clustering9
cosine-similarity8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hongyuanmei/HMEIatJHU.github.io
Jul 2021 - Feb 2025
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:1 PR, 80 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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hongyuanmei/neurawkes
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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