Summary
Shuihai Hu is a Chief Scientist with 11 years of experience designing high-performance, secure systems for AI, with deep expertise in data center and RDMA networks and distributed AI systems. Based in Hong Kong, he blends academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering with practical impact leading research and product work at Clustar since 2018. His career includes substantial research internships at Microsoft and Microsoft Research Asia and a long-term research and teaching role at HKUST, which informs his ability to translate cutting-edge networking research into production-grade AI infrastructure. Shuihai is particularly focused on building low-latency, secure interconnects for large-scale model training and inference—an area that benefits from his hands-on work across RDMA and datacenter networking. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges theoretical models and real-world deployments, often surfacing optimizations that are not obvious until measured at scale.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Technology, First Class Honors, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Technology, First Class Honors at University of Science and Technology of China
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese