Yifan Yu
Research Intern at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Yu is a PhD student and research intern focused on making generative AI systems more efficient through model compression, quantization, and inference optimization. With a decade of experience spanning research roles at UIUC, Georgia Tech, Google, Amazon, and Together AI, he blends algorithmic curiosity with practical engineering to speed up large language models and search algorithms. He has hands-on experience in neural architecture search and ensemble optimization from academic projects and applied transformer work from industry internships. Based in Urbana, Illinois, Yifan is an enthusiastic open-source hobbyist—humorously calling his GitHub an “orphanage of hobby projects”—and enjoys uncovering structure in language and vision models that most people overlook.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyIB diploma program, IB diploma program at International BaccalaureateInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Shanghai World Foreign Language AcademyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (15)
arduino-ide7
arduino7
ide7
yesod4
azerothcore3
branches3
gleam2
riak2
nim-lang2
scaffolding2
erlang2
c-programming1
haskell1
foreign1
beam1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lambdalainen/dcgan-fpga
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
lambdalainen/req
Nov 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
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