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Wanyu Zhao

I am a second year PhD at UIUC CS working with Prof. Charith Mendis.

My research interests lie in computer systems, machine learning and the intersection between the two areas. My goal is to build practical and efficient systems (for machine learning and other emerging large-scale workloads). I’m also interested in applying Machine Learning to System Design.

News

• [Oct. 2024] I am going a give a talk on efficient training of temporal graph neural networks at CIKM24.
  [Website]
• [Mar. 2024] I gave a talk on TGLite in Temporal Graph Learning Reading Group.
  [Video]
• [Apr. 2024] We released the TGLite framework for programming temporal GNNs. Check out its code and the documentation.
• [Aug. 2023] Join ADAPT@UIUC!

Research

• Large-Scale Temporal Graph Learning

  Efficient and scalable temporal graph neural network training.

  User-friendly framework for temporal graph learning.

Past Research

• Learning-Based Software-Defined Flash Infrastructure

  Deploy reinforcement learning in SDF management to adapt to dynamically changing storage states and workload patterns.

• Distributed Matrix Completion

  Learn a rank-r matrix by learning lower rank matrices, distributedly.

Misc

I like coding and I’m committed to open source. Here are some of my projects.

• ExAllTrue

  ExAllTrue is our demo for Chinese financial document event extraction model in DeeCamp 2021. We won the second place in the financial track.

• Rapq

  Rapq is a search engine for finding the applications you want, including mobile apps, PC apps and online apps.

• MazeGenerator

  MazeGenerator randomly generates a maze of specified size implemented by union-find.

• ClassChat

  An affair management system for university classes (PC) with basic functions such as instant messaging (private chat and group chat), class announcements, and authority management.

About Me

• I was born in Jilin, China.

• I love movies, dance (Hiphop and Chinese folk dance), and some Chinese traditional musical instruments.

• My twin sister works on quantum computing.

• At SDU, I was one of ICPC team and High-performance Computing and Big Data Processing Group.