Zheyu Shen
Research Assistant at University of Maryland
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZheyu Shen is a research-focused software engineer and PhD student in Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland with a decade of experience spanning industry R&D and academic roles. He has applied systems and software expertise at Tencent and as a research intern at Snowflake, and currently advances research projects as a graduate research assistant. With a strong academic foundation from USC (MS, 3.78 GPA) and Northwestern Polytechnical University (BE), he blends rigorous research methods with practical engineering to deliver production-minded prototypes and experiments. Known for a continuous learning mindset—“Keep coding! Keep learning!”—he’s comfortable moving between grading and course development, hands-on R&D, and collaboration with industry partners. Based in Los Angeles, he brings an uncommon combination of long-term industry experience and active doctoral research, positioning him to translate research insights into scalable system implementations.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.78/4, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.78/4 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at University of Maryland
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
mixture-of-experts10
compression10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
data-parallelism10
deep-learning10
distributed-training10
deepspeed10
inference10
gpu10
optimization10
recommender-system7
python5
tensorflow5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shenzheyu/LeetCode
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:140 commits, 94 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
shenzheyu/DeepSpeedExamples
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Example models using DeepSpeed
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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