Hi! I'm a fourth-year undergraduate software engineering student at the University of Waterloo.
I was most recently an intern at Nvidia working on performance engineering for the PyTorch core library. Before that, I worked on training stability, scaling laws, and efficiency for mixture-of-experts language models (萌えs) on the pretraining team at Databricks/MosaicML. Previously, I was a student researcher at Google Brain on the algorithmic efficiency team (machine learning optimizers and training efficiency) hosted by Zachary Nado. Before that, I spent two amazing internships as an early engineer at Co:here where I wrote TensorFlow and JAX to scale the training of LLMs to exaflop-scale TPU clusters and lead development of a new LLM inference runtime to serve our first O(50B) LLM to users. In my free time you can probably find me working, travelling, skiing, cooking, eating, or playing Factorio/League/Valorant.
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