Liliang Ren
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiliang Ren is a Member of Technical Staff specializing in sequence modeling and NLP with 11 years of experience, currently focused on pretraining at the intersection of industry and research. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he has contributed to Microsoft’s AI Superintelligence efforts and pretraining of code models, and now works at Thinking Machines Lab on large-scale pretraining. His background spans internships and research roles at Microsoft and Amazon, with a PhD in Computer Science underway at UIUC and an MS in ECE from UC San Diego. Liliang’s work emphasizes efficient long-context modeling and hybrid architectures, often collaborating with senior researchers on cutting-edge pretraining techniques. He maintains a personal homepage for deeper dives into projects, reflecting a researcher-engineer profile that bridges theory and production-scale model training. A less obvious strength is his consistent trajectory from electrical engineering foundations to leading-edge sequence-model research, signaling strong cross-disciplinary depth.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoBachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ningbo Xiaoshi High School
Github Skills (30)
hierarchical10
python9
multi-task-learning9
machine-learning9
natural-language-generation9
gpu9
deep-learning9
sequence9
numpy8
neural-network8
tensor7
acceleration7
tensorflow7
gpu-acceleration7
scalable7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
renll/renll.github.io
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:167 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
renll/ComerNet
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
[EMNLP 2019] Scalable and Accurate Dialogue State Tracking via Hierarchical Sequence Generation
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 1 month
pytorchscalablesequenceend-to-endsequence-generation
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