Hongzhi Chen
Co-Founder And CTO at Kasma
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolHongzhi Chen is a Co-Founder and CTO based in Hong Kong with 8 years of experience building distributed graph databases, processing, and training systems for industry-scale workloads. He transitioned from research—earning a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering and holding research roles at CUHK, Microsoft Research, and UPenn—into engineering leadership at ByteDance where he reached Staff Engineer before founding Kasma. Hongzhi blends deep academic rigor with practical production experience across ML infrastructure (including work on MindSpore) and large-scale infra at ByteDance, giving him rare expertise at the intersection of graph systems and ML training. He publishes technical details on his homepage and pursues hands-on system design while steering product and engineering strategy as a startup CTO.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English
Github Skills (31)
mining9
huggingface8
pytorch7
large-scale7
graph7
machine-learning7
gpu7
scale7
python7
ai6
tensorflow6
kubeflow6
java6
xgboost6
kubernetes6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yaobaiwei/GMiner
Jun 2020 - May 2021
An efficient large-scale graph mining framework.
Contributions:3 commits, 5 PRs, 28 pushes in 10 months
pythonminingscalelarge-scalegraph
yaobaiwei/GTran
May 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:108 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 3 years 11 months
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