Lequn Chen
Research Engineer at Perplexity
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLequn Chen is a research engineer in Seattle with 13 years of industry and academic experience focused on making AI systems faster and more cost-effective. Currently at Perplexity, he applies research-grade rigor to production engineering, translating PhD-level research from the University of Washington into deployable performance improvements. His background includes internships at Google and Microsoft and long-term graduate research that bridged theory and systems implementation. Comfortable across research labs and fast-moving product teams, he has a track record of optimizing models and pipelines for real-world constraints. An early researcher trained at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he blends deep academic foundations with hands-on systems engineering. His public-facing security-conscious footprint (GPG key on GitHub) suggests attention to reproducibility and trustworthy collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at 上海交通大学
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (162)
web3py10
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
cpp10
ecosystem10
ml10
llm-inference10
neural-network10
grpc10
data-science10
python-interface10
nvidia10
xelatex10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
punica-ai/punica
Aug 2023 - May 2024
Serving multiple LoRA finetuned LLM as one
Contributions:2 releases, 15 PRs, 72 pushes in 8 months
large-language-modelsllmlora
abcdabcd987/p2dv.in
Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:92 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
battlegamegame-ai
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