Loc Huynh
Senior Research Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLoc Huynh is a Senior Research Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building fast, efficient computational systems and advancing controllable AI on the Guidance team. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Computer Science from Singapore Management University—with hands-on engineering across research and production roles at Microsoft since 2018. Known for pragmatic open-source advocacy ("Open-Source FTW"), he brings research rigor to scalable implementation, bridging model development and system performance. Loc’s background in both computer engineering and advanced CS gives him a rare fluency across hardware-aware optimization and algorithmic research. Colleagues rely on him to translate novel AI ideas into robust, deployable systems that prioritize speed, control, and reproducibility.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Singapore Management UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Bach Khoa University (fomerly Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology)
Github Skills (91)
metal10
mlops10
opencl10
javascript10
llmops10
xpu10
transformer10
gpt10
vulkan10
llama10
cpu10
amd10
cuda10
pytorch10
inference10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JC1DA/vllm
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Contributions:50 pushes, 10 branches in 4 months
JC1DA/lanyocr
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 32 PRs, 47 pushes in 4 months
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