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General Information

Full Name Yihan Zhu
Email yzhu25@nd.edu
Phone (574) 208-8725

Education

  • 2024-2029
    PhD of Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
  • 2021-2023
    Master of Electrical Engineering
    Columbia University, New York, NY
  • 2017-2021
    Bachelor of Electrical Science and Technology
    Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu

Experience

  • 2023-2024
    AI Engineer Internship
    SOPHON
    • Led AI micro-server SE5 development on TPU accelerator. Built cross-compilation environment and transferred YOLO-series models to FP32 bmodels via NNTC toolchain for target detection.
  • 2020-2021
    Software Engineer Internship
    Whale Cloud Computing Technology Co., Ltd
    • Developed a scalable user information service with asynchronous processing and data sharding, integrated big data privacy techniques, and applied machine learning to analyze and predict broadband user behavior.
  • 2020
    Data Engineer Internship
    Tencent Cloud Computing Co., Ltd Cloud Service Platform
    • Evaluated and optimized MySQL solutions based on system architecture and client requirements, leveraged virtualization to streamline testing and data validation.

Teaching

  • 2024 Fall
    CSE 60556 Large Language Models (TA, PhD level)
    University of Notre Dame
    • A graduate-level course on large language models covering their tasks, architectures, training, reasoning, efficiency, applications, and societal challenges.
  • 2023 Summer
    Theory and Practice of Large Models (Lecturer)
    Shenzhen University
    • A course on AI compilers that teaches principles, design, and optimization with TPU-MLIR for efficient TPU use and career preparation in AI.
  • 2022 Fall
    E6770 Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing (TA, MS level)
    Columbia University
    • An advanced study of communication protocols, network architectures, flow/congestion control, and performance evaluation in integrated networks.

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    NeurIPS Scholar Award
  • 2023
    Master of Science Award of Excellence
    • Top graduating MS students are recognized with the Master of Science Award of Excellence that is awarded to less than 5% of the graduating class.
  • 2022
    MS EE Honors Program
    • Active EE MS students with a GPA in the top 10% of the class are included in the MS Honors program.