Yitao YANG, Ph.D. student Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Supervisor: Professor Hong Xu, Henry

BIOGRAPHY

I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof. Hong Xu and co-supervised by Prof. Baochun Li. Previously, I received my B.Eng. from The Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) in 2023. My research interests lie primarily in the area of Machine Learning Systems (MLSys).

CONTACT

• Email: ytyang [at] cse.cuhk.edu.hk
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Efficient Distributed Training & Inference Systems

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Aug. 2023 - Present

• B.Eng. Computer Science and Engineering, The Northwestern Polytechnical University, Sep. 2019 - Jul. 2023

PUBLICATION

• Adaptive Gating in Mixture-of-Experts based Language Models
  Jiamin Li, Qiang Su, Yitao Yang, Yimin Jiang, Cong Wang, Hong Xu
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
  

EXPERIENCE

• Visiting Student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Oct. 2022 - Jun. 2023
  Topic: Efficient MoE Training Systems

TEACHING

• 2023 Fall: CSCI4430 Computer Networks

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

• Full Postgraduate Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023 - 2027

• SAMSUNG Scholarship, SAMSUNG, 2020 - 2021

• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, 2019 - 2020

• Pacemaker to Merit Student, The Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2019 - 2020