Sicong Zhuang
Senior ML Kernel Engineer at Cerebras Systems
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSicong Zhuang is a Senior ML Kernel Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in deep learning kernels, compiler backends, and high-performance computing for next-gen hardware. He builds and validates high-performance kernels for GPT3-like models, optimizes DL compiler backends (Facebook Glow, Apache TVM), and leverages mixed-precision numerical techniques to squeeze performance from novel architectures at Cerebras. His background includes parallel BLAS/LAPACK development, sparse numerical methods and a cycle-accurate CPU simulator from his PhD and HPC work at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, giving him rare cross-domain expertise in both algorithms and microarchitecture. Sicong also publishes open-source tooling for distributed training (bitpack, altsplit) that reduce communication and memory overhead in multi-GPU/MPI setups, reflecting a pragmatic focus on production-scale efficiency. Based in Toronto, he combines research rigor with hands-on hardware bring-up and low-level debugging to translate architectural features into reliable ML performance.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems at University of TasmaniaUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Chinese, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (3)
cryptocurrency5
blockchain4
ethereum4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cypherium/tech_archive
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
cypherium/blockchain
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Cypherium blockchain protocol
Contributions:2 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 months
ethereumcryptocurrencyblockchainblockchain-protocol
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