๐ Hi, I'm Zhen!
I'm Zhen Tong โ a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, passionate about Deep Learning Systems, LLM infrastructure, and Reinforcement Learning. I enjoy building scalable AI systems, optimizing model performance, and diving deep into generative models.
๐ฌ Research & Interests
Large Language Model systems (MLX, vLLM-style engines, speculative decoding, GPU/Metal kernels), Distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and performance engineering
๐ผ Experience
Google - Full time software engineer (2026) Working in DataFlow @ Google Cloud. Working on distributed system for parallel computing. You can think DataFlow as highly-optimized MapReduce.
Amazon โ Software Engineer Intern (2025) Built centralized data deletion orchestration service using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, IAM, CDK.
LOGO Lab, CUHKSZ โ Research Assistant (2024.2 โ Present) Research on generative models and optimization algorithms.
๐ Education
Carnegie Mellon University - Master of Science in Information Networking (2024.8 โ 2026.1, expected)
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen - BSc in Computer Science and Engineering (2020.9 โ 2024.5)

