Yiyan Zhai
Research Assistant at Machine Learning Department at CMU
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolYiyan Zhai is a research-focused software engineer and graduate CS student at Carnegie Mellon University with ~3 years of experience building efficient, deployable machine learning systems. Currently a Research Assistant in the CMU Machine Learning Department, she works with Prof. Tianqi Chen on LLM deployment and benchmarking (including contributions to MLC-LLM and FlashInfer efforts) that bridge research and production. Her prior work spans LLM-generated text attribution (EMNLP 2023), high-speed robot manipulation of deformable objects, and teaching assistant roles for large-scale ML and linear algebra courses. She combines hands-on systems engineering with principled ML research, favoring practical architectures that make models more accessible and performant in native deployments.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Nanjing Foreign Language SchoolUndergraduate, Computer Science, Undergraduate, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (23)
llm10
webml10
fifo10
sieve10
chatgpt9
simulation9
tvm9
language-model9
deep-learning9
lru9
ttl9
tarantool9
memcached8
webgpu8
benchmark8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
YiyanZhai/mlc-llm
May 2024 - Sep 2024
Enable everyone to develop, optimize and deploy AI models natively on everyone's devices.
Contributions:19 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
YiyanZhai/web-llm
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
Bringing large-language models and chat to web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support.
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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