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Education 🧑‍🎓

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, the University of Hong Kong, 2025 (expected)
• M.Eng. in Software Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2020
  • GPA: 3.84/4.00, Ranking: 1/98
• B.Eng. in Micro-electronics Science and Engineering, Fudan University, 2017
  • GPA: 3.87/4.00, Ranking: 2/69

Work experience 🧑‍💻

• 2020-2021: Algorithm Engineer
  • Bytedance
  • Text analysis and retrieval in search engines
• Summer 2019: Software Engineering Intern
  • Google
  • Knowledge graph search language development
• Spring 2016: Physical Design Intern
  • NVIDIA
  • Physical design development

Skills 🔨

• Python, C/C++, SQL, Java, Perl, MATLAB
• Pytorch, Tensorflow, Scikit-learn
• English 🇺🇸, 日本語 🇯🇵 (N2), 廣東話 🇭🇰, 普通话 🇨🇳
• Guitar 🎸, Piano 🎹

Publications 📃

• Lai, Y., Liu, J., Tang, Z., Wang, B., Hao, J., & Luo, P. (2023). Chipformer: Transferable chip placement via offline decision transformer. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 202, 18346-18364.
• Lai, Y., Mu, Y., & Luo, P. (2022). Maskplace: Fast chip placement via reinforced visual representation learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 35, 24019-24030.
• Lai, Y., Ping, G., Wu, Y., Lu, C., & Ye, X. (2020). Opensmax: Unknown domain generation algorithm detection. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 325, 1850-1857.

Patents 🔖

• Luo, P., Lai, Y., & Yao, M. U. (2024). U.S. Patent Application No. 18/355,754.

Teaching 🧑‍🏫

• Teaching Assistant, COMP3278 Introduction to database management systems (2022 Autumn)
• Teaching Assistant, ENGG1340 Computer programming II (2022 Spring)

Service and leadership 🤝

• CSSA@HKU
• Monitor of Software School of Tsinghua Unversity