Yao Lu
Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolYao Lu is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore with 11 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning and systems engineering. With a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a long tenure at Microsoft Research, he blends rigorous research with production-facing expertise in data science, core systems, and cloud infrastructure. He has hands-on open-source experience extending a popular CNN framework (darknet) by implementing LSTM and GRU layers with GPU-accelerated training paths, showing comfort across low-level systems and ML modeling. Based in Singapore, Yao focuses on moving AI from prototype to robust deployment while maintaining a research-first mindset that informs practical system design.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at 复旦大学
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
c1710
darknet10
rnn-model10
lstm10
gru10
deep-learning10
machine-learning10
c1110
n10
python9
tensorflow9
cuda9
tensor9
computer-vision8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pjreddie/darknet
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Convolutional Neural Networks
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yao's commits primarily focused on adding and modifying recurrent neural network (RNN) components, specifically including the implementation of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) layers. They integrated these new layer types into the darknet framework, including code changes to support parsing configurations, saving/loading weights, and implementing GPU-accelerated forward and backward passes. Additionally, the user reverted one of the changes.
deep-learningconvolutionalneural-networksneural-networkdarknet
tjluyao/iris_demo
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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