Summary
Muxin Tian is an ML systems researcher and software engineer with four years of experience building production-grade systems and agentic LLM research. Currently affiliated with Tencent and conducting Hybrid LLM Serving research at HarvardSys Lab, he has blended industry and academic experience from Microsoft Research Asia, UIUC, and the University of Toronto. His work spans ML-for-systems and systems-for-ML—shipping an Edge hybrid library at Microsoft, contributing to ChromiumOS startup tracing, and developing on-device learning prototypes for iOS. Known for bridging practical engineering with cutting-edge research, he focuses on LLM agents, ML system architecture, and explainability through ontology. Based in Canada, he combines full-stack implementation skills with a research-first mindset to turn complex ML systems into deployable, interpretable solutions.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Toronto