Yang You (computer scientist)

computer Scientist and Professor

Yang You, born on April 19, 1991, is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore.[1]

Yang You
Born (1991-04-19) April 19, 1991 (age 33)
Known forLARS, LAMB
AwardsForbes 30 Under 30 (2021), IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Scientist
ThesisFast and Accurate Machine Learning on Distributed Systems and Supercomputers (2020)

Biography

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Yang completed his undergraduate studies at the School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University. He earned his master's degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in 2015, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020 under the guidance of James Demmel.[2] He joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and founded a company called HPC-AI Tech, focusing on combining high-performance computing (HPC) technologies with artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance AI productivity.[3][4][5]

Academic works

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Yang is recognized for his contributions in large scale optimization. In 2018, he introduced the LARS algorithm,[6] which achieved a new world record for ImageNet training, reducing the training time for AlexNet on ImageNet to just 24 minutes.[7] The following year, he further improved the algorithm and introduced the LAMB algorithm to address its limitations on attention models such as BERT, significantly reducing the training time for BERT from 3 days to 76 minutes.[8][9]

Honors and awards

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Yang You is a Siebel Scholar and received the ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships in 2017. He was awarded the Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize in 2020 for his notable contributions to soft computing and its applications.[10] He was recognized in Forbes' 30 under 30 Asia list in 2021 and received the IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Award.[11][12]

References

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  1. "中国农业大学信息与电气工程学院". ciee.cau.edu.cn. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  2. "Yang You wins ACM IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial Fellowship". EECS at Berkeley. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  3. "Teaching a computer to think like a human". Teaching a computer to think like a human. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  4. Mansfield, Kathy (2018-04-10). "Shaden Smith and Yang You Announced as Recipients of 2017 ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  5. "ImageNet Training Record - 24 Minutes". www.i-programmer.info. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  6. "2017 ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships Recipients". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  7. "Yang You makes Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 Asia for Healthcare and Science". EECS at Berkeley. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  8. Jennings, Ralph. "Under 30 Asia Alum Launches AI Startup With Funding From Kai-Fu Lee's Sinovation Ventures And ZhenFund". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  9. "Supercomputing speeds up deep learning training". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  10. Black, Doug (2017-08-29). "Researchers in Machine Learning Awarded George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships". High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  11. "Student Award: Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize | EECS at UC Berkeley". www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  12. "Asst Prof Yang You wins IEEE TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award". Asst Prof Yang You wins IEEE TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award. Retrieved 2024-03-05.