Youpeng Zhao
Brief Bio
I am a final-year PhD student at the University of Central Florida, advised by Jun Wang. I build efficient, scalable, and reliable machine learning systems (MLSys) for emerging AI applications, such as large language models (LLMs). I am one of cohorts for MLSys Rising Stars 2025.
- 08/2025-02/2026: Student researcher at Google. I worked on on-device optimization for Gemini.
- 05/2025-08/2025: Research Intern at Microsoft Research. I worked on system-driven test-time scaling for reasoning models.
- 05/2024-08/2024: Research Intern at d-Matrix. I worked on system optimization for diffusion models.
- 03/2021-07/2022: ML Researcher at Samsung Research China. I worked on efficient deep learning for mobile devices.
Links
- Selected Publications. Full list can be found in my Google Scholar.
- LinkedIn.
- GitHub.
Fun Facts
- I used to play some elecctronic keyboard and won a national prize in 2008 🎹
- My first name is Youpeng (
有朋 ), which in Chinese, means having friends from all over the world 🤓 - My English name is Kenneth, but people usually call me Ken or Kenny 😎
