Hongzheng Chen
Research Scholar at Cornell University
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHongzheng Chen is a Research Scholar and Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University specializing in compilers, programming systems, and accelerators for large-scale machine learning workloads, particularly large language models. With eight years of experience across academia and industry, he has interned or collaborated with NVIDIA, AWS, ByteDance, and Google on deep learning compilers and heterogeneous hardware stacks. His work focuses on making GPUs/TPUs/NPUs more productive and performant for GenAI workloads, bridging low-level accelerator code generation with practical systems engineering. Recognized as an ML and Systems Rising Star in 2024, he combines rigorous PhD research with hands-on contributions to compiler toolchains—often emphasizing cross-hardware portability and scalability. Based in Ithaca, he brings both theoretical depth and production-oriented instincts to building next-generation ML infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Sun Yat-sen UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Cornell University
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (88)
python10
asic10
code-generation10
compression10
clang10
optimization10
modular10
fpga10
dsl10
heterogeneous10
pytorch10
mixture-of-experts10
inference10
hardware10
triton10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cornell-zhang/allo
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Allo: A Programming Model for Composable Accelerator Design
Contributions:88 reviews, 189 PRs, 118 pushes in 1 year 1 month
adlasiccompilerdslfpga
chhzh123/Assignments
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Assignments of Computer Science courses in SYSU
Contributions:384 commits, 1 PR, 130 pushes in 2 years
sysucomputer-sciencesciencecomputer-science-courses
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