Lixi Zhou
Research Assistant at Arizona State University
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLixi Zhou is a Ph.D. research assistant at Arizona State University with a decade of engineering experience focused on integrating deep learning with database systems (AI4DB/DB4AI) to co-optimize model inference and data preprocessing inside relational databases. Her work has produced dramatic query speedups—up to 400× on realistic workloads—and appears in top venues like SIGMOD and VLDB, demonstrating both theoretical novelty and practical impact. She has industrial experience at IBM, where she accelerated LLM inference by designing parallel execution in the ONNX-MLIR stack, and has built privacy-preserving and testing tools at scale during other internships. Beyond performance wins, Lixi explores storage and lookup efficiency (deduplication and neural compression for key-value lookups), showing a rare blend of systems-level engineering and ML model-aware optimization. Based in the Greater Phoenix Area, she mentors junior researchers and bridges academia and industry to push ML-infused data systems toward production-ready performance.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Arizona State UniversityComputer System Engineering - Software Design, Computer System Engineering - Software Design at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments at Central South University
Github Skills (50)
modular10
toolchain10
llvm9
clang9
compiler9
python8
infrastructure8
onnx8
pytorch8
linear-algebra7
blas7
ndarray7
mpi7
interpolation7
numerics7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lixi-zhou/SSSP_On_CUDA
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 74 commits, 60 pushes in 2 months
LxChris/baiduife_2016
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:44 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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