LIU Shih-Yang is a HKUST PhD candidate in Computer Science specializing in model compression and efficient deep learning, with six years of research and industry experience. He has interned at NVIDIA working on efficient reasoning language models and PEFT x compression, collaborating with senior researchers like Xin Dong and Pavlo Molchanov. His background bridges rigorous academic research and applied AI engineering, including a research assistantship at Academia Sinica. Trained also in finance (BBA, First Class Honor), he brings quantitative rigor and business sensibility to ML system design. Based in Hong Kong, he maintains an active research page and contributes to cutting-edge efficiency work that targets real-world deployment constraints. Known for focusing on practical model-size and inference-cost reductions, he aims to make large models more accessible and production-ready.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
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