Ziming Liu is a PhD candidate at NUS's HPC-AI Lab and a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia, specializing in machine learning systems and high-performance computing with eight years of industry and research experience. He has worked on pipeline parallelism for deep learning and is currently exploring long-sequence training for large language models, bridging systems research with practical scalability challenges. His contributions to the ColossalAI project show hands-on work in distributed training internals and CUDA kernel refinements, focusing on robustness and code quality in large-model tooling. With a background from Peking University and NUS, plus prior roles at ByteDance and HPC-AI Tech, he blends NLP engineering experience with deep systems expertise and is actively seeking collaborations and internships.
Making large AI models cheaper, faster and more accessible
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:6 reviews, 9 commits, 27 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ziming's commits primarily focus on formatting and code style improvements within the ColossalAI library, specifically related to process group initialization and other internal components. They made changes to files related to distributed training, including updates to 2.5D, 2D, 3D, and 1D initializer files. Additionally, the user's work demonstrates a focus on improving code style within the CUDA kernel, including modification of embedding bag functionality.
Contributions:78 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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