Zhiying Xu is a performance-focused software engineer and researcher with a decade of experience specializing in deep learning inference/training optimization, code generation, and compiler techniques. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at AWS after progressing from Applied Scientist roles, she blends academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Science at Harvard with hands-on industry impact at tech leaders including Google and Microsoft. Her work targets squeezing latency and throughput gains from models and runtimes, turning research insights into production-ready systems. Based in Nanjing, she combines global experience with a strong foundation in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. An inquisitive tinkerer by nature, she maintains a public portfolio showcasing projects and reproducible research that bridge compilers and ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Harvard University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
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Zhiying Xu - Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)