About Me

I am a PhD Candidate in Boston University working with Prof. Yigong Hu.

My research interests are primarily on improving the performance and reliability of distributed system. One focus is to enhance system performance, spanning from machine learning systems to cloud computing platforms.

Previously, I worked as a Software Engineer at Alibaba Group for two years, improving system efficiency at scale.

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EuroMLSys '25

Verifying Semantic Equivalence of Large Models with Equality Saturation

Kahfi S. Zulkifli*, Wenbo Qian* (co-first author), Shaowei Zhu, Yuan Zhou, Zhen Zhang, Chang Lou

EuroMLSys 2025 (co-located with EuroSys)

Educations

  • 2025.09 - Present, PhD Candidate in Computer Engineering, Boston University, United States
  • 2023.09 - 2025.08, Master of Computer Science, Northeastern University, United States
  • 2017.09 - 2021.06, Bachelor of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
  • 2019.01 - 2019.02, Academic Exchange Program, University of California, Berkeley, California

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