Summary
Xin Dong is a research lead and Harvard Ph.D. candidate with nine years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, computer architecture, and networking, focusing on efficient, predictable deep learning systems. He has driven production-scale LLM and multimodal model training at NVIDIA, SonyAI, and ByteDance Seed, and his academic work spans compression, distributed training, and trustworthy AI with papers in top venues like CVPR, ICML, ICLR, and ECCV. Xin combines systems-level rigor with model-centric innovation—optimizing training infrastructure while advancing algorithms for model compression and privacy. Based in San Francisco, he blends industry research leadership with deep academic roots, having collaborated at NTU and UCSD and contributed to real-world deployments such as on-device avatar and VR compute systems.
9 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 Electronic Science and Technology of China
University of California, San Diego
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Harvard University
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Computer Science, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore