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Education

• Research Assistant, LSDS, Imperial College London, Mar. 2024 - present. Funded by Samsung.
• MSc. in Advanced Computing, graduated with distinction, Imperial College London, 2022-2023
• Diplôme d’Ingénieur (major in AI), CentraleSupélec (Université Paris-Saclay), 2019-2023

Research experience

• Master’s thesis: “HetML: Heterogeneity-aware Automatic Parallel Training for Distributed Deep Learning”, Imperial College London, 2023
  • Supervisor: Prof. Peter Pietzuch
• Research Module: “Automatic Parallelism for Training Deep Learning Models”, Imperial College London, Jan. 2023 - May. 2023
  • 30-page survey establishing a topology on parallelism techniques and auto-parallel model trainig systems
  • Advised by Prof. Peter Pietzuch

Paper

• HetML: Heterogeneity-aware Automatic Parallel Training for Distributed Deep Learning
  Yanda Tao, Pedro Silvestre, Marcel Wagenlander, Peter Pietzuch (2023), manuscript in preparation

Work experience

• Junior Full Stack Developer, SAP France, Mar. 2022 - Sep. 2022
  • Implement support tool: Adapt integration tool for GitHub project management.
  • Implement dependency checks: Manage patch conflicts based on commit dependencies using traversal algorithms on customized dependency graphs.
  • Delivery: Support the delivery process of crucial patches for commercial tools alongside delivery managers
• Data Scientist/MLOps intern, Alstom Transport, Jul. 2021 - Aug. 2021
  • Radio log analysis: Analyze 3M+ radio logs to diagnose and predict on-board radio equipment health issues
  • Pipeline deployment and maintenance: Build a Cloud-based data analytic pipeline to accelerate and automate data processing, baseline creation, and prediction using OpenFaaS and Apache NiFi.
  • Pipeline optimization: Improve prediction speed by aggregating queries and pruning irrelevant data transfers between cloud storage and online database

Activities

• My group achieved 1st in 22-23 cohort at the NLP course project “Patronizing and Condescending Language Detection” on the same task in SemEval-2022 Task 4, with the help of 2 classmates.
• I was a member of the technical team in ViaRézo. Specifically, I worked on the development of Webaz, a system supporting a 5000-student campus for subscribing and monitoring their access to the Internet.
• I was a member of La Guilde. My favorite board game was Unlock!.