
LU Yao
Assistant Professor- Ph.D. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, 2018
- MSc of Computer Science, Fudan University, 2013
- BEng of Computer Science, Tongji University, 2010
My passions lie at the intersection of AI, systems and their applications in science and beyond. Throughout my academic and industry journey, I have engaged with various tiers of the technology landscape and acquired hands-on experience in data science, core systems, advanced cloud infrastructures, and a diverse range of AI applications. The research topics I am interested in include: - Machine learning, data and cloud systems - Data- and system-centric AI - LLM post-training, applications in science and beyond I received a PhD from the University of Washington in 2018. I spent years as a researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond.
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CS4221
Database Applications Design and Tuning
CS6216
Advanced Topics in Machine Learning