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Name Lei Huang
Email leih5@illinois.edu

Education

Work

  • 2025.08 - Present
    Research Assistant
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Scaling αβ-CROWN toward parallel, high-performance, distributed, and scalable formal verification; applying HPC techniques in Python/PyTorch.
    • Parallelization and performance engineering of αβ-CROWN
    • Leveraged HPC strategies for PyTorch-based verifier workloads
  • 2025.07 - 2025.08
    ML System Engineer
    Research Startup
    Built end-to-end LLM pretraining stack: data production, distributed training, and evaluation.
    • Designed a data production cluster capable of ~10M tokens/sec
    • Set up NVIDIA Megatron-based distributed training
    • Produced ~1T tokens and trained an 890M model on 16×H100 in ~14 days
  • 2024.12 - 2025.07
    Quant Systems Engineer
    Sixie Capital
    Supported quant research with GPU/CUDA/PyTorch; built distributed ML and HPC storage infra.
    • Implemented multinode multi-GPU training with one-click orchestration
    • Automated BeeGFS over RDMA InfiniBand deployment for HPC storage
    • Shipped a meta-rule-based market data check system preventing multiple incidents
  • 2023.12 - 2024.12
    Research Assistant
    National University of Singapore (NUS)
    Developed CUDA implementations of algorithms with large speedups.
    • Delivered CUDA kernels/implementations achieving ~1000× speedups over CPU

Awards

Publications

Projects

Languages

Chinese
Native
English
Fluent

Skills

Programming
Modern C/C++
Modern Python/PyTorch
CUDA *Not limited to any Langauge
Systems
High Performance Computing
(Linux) System Programming
Distributed/Parallel Programming
Speaking
Chinese (Native)
English (Fluent)