Qirong Ho
Assistant Professor at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolQirong Ho is an ML-systems researcher and technology leader with 12 years of experience, combining roles as Assistant Professor at MBZUAI and Co-Founder/CTO of Petuum. A Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning PhD and SIGKDD Dissertation Award winner, he focuses on distributed ML computing, scalable algorithms, and production ML execution systems. At Petuum he has steered both product and open-source efforts (CASL) to industrialize AI for enterprise use, and he continues to mentor students as an adjunct at SMU. His background includes applied R&D and deployments for industry partners and a Facebook internship optimizing large-scale ads ML, reflecting deep practical experience on 1,000+ machine clusters. Known for bridging rigorous research with production-grade systems, he often designs algorithms with deployment constraints in mind, not just theoretical gains.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
parallel9
caffe8
machine-learning8
deep-learning6
scheduler5
cpp5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sailing-pmls/third_party
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Useful C++ libraries
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
cppc-plus-plusheader-onlycpp17cpp11
sailing-pmls/pmls-caffe
Dec 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
ml-systemparalleldeep-learningmachine-learningcaffe
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