Fan Laiمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Dr. Fan Lai is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) , where he leads research at the intersection of Machine Learning, Systems, and Computer Networking . His work focuses on building practical systems for efficient GenAI applications across cloud and planetary scales, with real-world adoption by companies like Meta, LinkedIn, and Cisco . Education : Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan (2023) Previous Roles : Systems Research@Google, Meta AI Research areas include: Cloud ML Systems (LLMs, Image/VideoGen, DLRMs) Collaborative Learning (Federated Learning, Edge-Cloud ML, Hyperscale Training) ML for Systems (Resource Management, Network Optimization) Recent publications span top conferences like SOSP'25, MICRO'25, MLSys'25, SIGMOD'25 , covering topics from LLM serving to distributed training compression . Awards include ACM SIGOPS Honorable Mention , David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize , and ML and Systems Rising Stars . Teaching includes CS 498: Machine Learning Systems and CS 598: Systems for GenAI . Actively mentoring PhD and MS students in ML systems research, with prior mentees transitioning to institutions like Princeton and UW .









