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Basics

Name Yifan Yu
Date of Birth Novemeber 30, 2001
Languages English, Chinese
Phone number 470-845-7356

Education

  • 2024 - Present
    PhD
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    • Computer Science
  • 2020 - 2024
    Bachelor of Science
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Computer Science
    • Concentration
      • Intelligence & Info network

Experience

  • 2024 - Present
    Research Assistant
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    • Working on efficient LLM serving system and GenAI
  • 2024.5 - 2024.7
    Student Researcher
    Systems Research@Google
    • Working on efficient LLM serving system
  • 2021.10 - 2024.5
    Research Assistant
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Increasing efficiency of LLMs
      • Model compression with low rank approximation and pruning methods
      • Quantization
  • 2022.5 - 2022.7
    Data Scientist Intern
    The Home Depot
    • Working on effective retrieval with LLM

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Presidential Undergraduate Research Award
  • 2020-2023
    • Faculty Honor

Academic Interests

  • Systems for machine learning
    • Efficient system for serving LLM and GenAI
    • Quantization
    • Compression

Other Interests

  • Cooking, Work out, board games