# You Yang

You Yang, founder and chairman of HPC-AI Tech, holds a master’s degree from Tsinghua and a doctorate from UC Berkeley under Academician James Demmel, described in the source as its electrical engineering and computer sciences dean. A Presidential Young Professor in the National University of Singapore’s computer science department. Described as the only person under 35 to win best or outstanding paper awards as first or corresponding author at 4 leading conferences: AAAI, ACL, IPDPS and ICPP. Set world training-speed records for ImageNet, BERT, AlphaFold and ViT, covered by ScienceDaily, The Next Web, i-programmer and dozens of other outlets. Related technology is widely used by Google, Microsoft, Intel and Nvidia. In the past three years, published more than a dozen first-author papers at NIPS, ICLR, Supercomputing, IPDPS, ICS and other major venues, with nearly two hundred papers in total. Received Tsinghua’s Outstanding Graduate recognition and its computer science department’s then-largest Siebel Scholarship. In 2017, received the ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship, described as the only ACM website-listed award for current doctoral students. As the most-cited graduating doctoral researcher in high-performance computing on Google Scholar in 2020, received Berkeley’s Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize and an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award nomination, one of 2 selected from 81 Berkeley EECS doctoral graduates in 2020. Honors include Forbes Asia’s list of honorees under 30, IEEE-CS’s outstanding newcomer award in supercomputing, Hurun U35 Entrepreneurial Pioneer, Forbes China’s global Chinese top 100, China’s Ten Economic Leaders, China Intelligent Computing Innovation Figure and Fortune China’s 40 Under 40. Worked at Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel and IBM.
You Yang holds a master’s from Tsinghua and doctorate from UC Berkeley under James Demmel, described as its EECS dean, and is a Presidential Young Professor at NUS. Described as the only person under 35 with first- or corresponding-author best or outstanding paper awards at 4 leading conferences: AAAI, ACL, IPDPS and ICPP. Set world training-speed records for ImageNet, BERT, AlphaFold and ViT, widely covered by ScienceDaily, The Next Web, i-programmer and others, with technology used by Google, Microsoft, Intel and Nvidia. This passage says he published dozens of first-author papers in NIPS, ICLR, Supercomputing, IPDPS, ICS and related venues over three years, with approximately 200 in total. Won first-author best-paper awards at IPDPS and ICPP and outstanding-paper awards at AAAI and ACL. Received Tsinghua’s Outstanding Graduate recognition and its then-largest computer science Siebel Scholarship. Received the ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship in 2017, described as the only ACM website-listed award for current doctoral students. As the most-cited graduating HPC doctoral researcher on Google Scholar in 2020, received the Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize and a Berkeley nomination for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, one of 2 among 81 EECS doctoral graduates in 2020. Honors include Forbes Asia’s list of honorees under 30, IEEE-CS’s supercomputing outstanding newcomer award, Hurun U35 Entrepreneurial Pioneer, Forbes China’s global Chinese top 100 and New Era Disruptive Founder, MIT Technology Review’s China Intelligent Computing Innovation Figure, Fortune China’s 40 Under 40 and China’s Ten Economic Leaders. Worked at Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel and IBM.

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