Zhewei Yao
Principal Engineer And Research Manager at Snowflake
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZhewei Yao is a Principal Engineer and Research Manager with nine years of experience building and scaling large-scale ML systems, currently leading modeling, algorithms, and agent research for Snowflake’s Arctic LLM training initiative. A UC Berkeley PhD in Applied Mathematics, he blends deep theoretical expertise with hands-on systems work from roles at Microsoft and Snowflake, focusing on training and inference at scale. He has driven product-facing AI capabilities across Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex Code, and AI Functions, and previously advanced DNN optimization and large-scale training at RISELab, Meta, and AWS. Known for bridging research and engineering, he brings a rare combination of second-order optimization knowledge and production ML systems experience to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (59)
pytorch10
distributed-training10
python10
mixture-of-experts10
machine-learning10
optimizer10
inference10
data-parallelism10
deepspeed10
deep-learning10
gpu10
compression10
hessian10
optimization10
numpy9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yaozhewei/yaozhewei.github.io
Jun 2018 - Apr 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:99 pushes in 5 years 10 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
yaozhewei/MLPruning
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 month
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