📢 I’m joining Princeton University for my PhD! 🐯

Bio

Hongyu Hè \ˈho:nˌu hə\ is a Master’s student and Direct Doctoral Scholar in Computer Science (CS) at ETH Zurich, where he works with Prof. Gustavo Alonso on FPGAs in the Systems Group. Hongyu is also an Associated Researcher at ETH AI Center. Advised by Prof. Theodoros Rekatsinas, he worked on efficient machine learning systems. Hongyu also had the pleasure to work with Prof. Ana Klimovic on serverless computing. Outside ETH, he has been collaborating with Prof. Christina Delimitrou (MIT) and Dr. Sameh Elnikety (Microsoft) on serverless workflows and Harvest VMs. Before joining ETH, Hongyu studied CS and mathematics at VU and UvA in the Netherlands, where he was led into systems research by Prof. Cristiano Giuffrida and Prof. Andy Tanenbaum. He achieved the highest GPA among his cohort and received the ADS Thesis Award in 2021. In Amsterdam, Hongyu conducted research on Knowledge Graphs (KGs) with Prof. Jacopo Urbani and on datacenter simulation with Prof. Alexandru Iosup. At Elsevier Discovery Lab, he worked with Prof. Michael Cochez as a Research Assistant in 2020 on augmenting KGs with user queries. In 2019, he was ranked as one of the top-10 CS students in the Netherlands by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Prior to moving to the Netherlands, Hongyu was a Law student at Tianjin University but ultimately decided on pursuing science and engineering instead.


Service

  • Artifact Evaluation Committee: MLSys ‘23; ` ` MobiSys ‘23; ` ` SOSP ‘23; ` ` ICPE ‘24
  • Artifact Evaluation Board: JSys ‘22, ‘23
  • Tutorial Organizer: ASPLOS ‘22


Industry Experience

Please see here for more details about my activities in the industry and academia.

Curieo AI
ML Research Fellow (summer 2024)
IBM Research
Geodata Team
Engineering Intern (spring 2024, part-time)
Apple
Visual Intelligence Team (AI/ML)
Research Engineer Intern (summer 2023)
Oracle Labs
Serverless Team
Graal Cloud Native Intern (spring 2023, part-time)
Huawei — Amsterdam Research Center
Search Team
R&D Intern (2021)
Picnic Technologies
Store Team
Software Developer (2021, part-time)
Software Engineer Intern (2020)


Talks

  • [2023 Oct] Systems Group Seminar @ ETH Zurich: “Fine-Grained Energy Attribution for Multi-Tenancy” (extended talk + live demo!)
  • [2023 Aug] ML study group @ Apple: “Transformer Architectures of Multimodal Language Models”
  • [2023 Jul] ML study group @ Apple: “Decoding Methods for Language Generation”
  • [2023 Jun] ML study group @ Apple: “Perceivers: A Family of Modality-Agnostic Architectures”
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  • [2023 May] HLS disucssion @ ETH (EE Dept.): “DASS: Combining Dynamic & Static Scheduling in High-Level Synthesis” (paper review)
  • [2022 Oct] Systems seminar @ ETH Zurich: "Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying" (paper review)
  • And more here


Open-Source Hacking


What’s More …

I’m crazy about doing all kinds of sports 🏀 🏃 🏓 🏊 🧘 🎳 🏸 ♟️, and I started violin at age eight 🎻. Also, I love learning new languages, and currently, I’m tackling German (~B1 level).

In May 2023, I ran 10km in 45min in the SoLa relay race as part of the Systems Group @ ETH.
Strolling with mom around Zürich Katzensee (my favorite place), April 2024

I love my mom more than anything in the world combined ❤️👩.