# Shangwu Yao

> Senior Software Engineer at Waymo

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shangwu

I am a software engineer specialized in performance optimization, GPU Compute and Deep Learning.

Skills: 
Performance optimization for Deep Learning and GPU compute kernels, hardware software co-designing.
Toolchain support: GPU compiler and driver, and ML accelerator compiler.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2020 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Performance Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California
AR/VR related performance analysis and optimization for computer vision pipeline and deep learning model
Led the performance optimization of neural network on ASIC accelerator

### Contributor @ scikit-learn (Machine Learning in Python)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Remote
- Contributed a new metric to Scikit-learn: multi-label confusion matrix, and conducted thorough tests (codecov 99.18%)
- Conducted benchmarking and line profiling on multi-label confusion matrix, reduced runtime by 81.8%
- Maintained warning message suppression code, suppressed 2239 expected warnings in testing

### Independent Study on Speech Recognition @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Under guidance of Prof. Bhiksha Raj, used deep learning for speech recognition problem.
- Developed an attention-based encoder-decoder model and a recurrent network trained with CTCLoss, used curriculum learning and beam search to improve results
- Adopted MFCC and implemented Vocal Tract Length Perturbation as a method of data augmentation in speech recognition
- Implemented weight-dropped LSTM which uses DropConnect on hidden-to-hidden weights and variational dropout on the input
- Achieved 3x speedup by reducing data transfer between CPU and GPU and replacing iterations with high level indexing

### Competition Participant @ Kaggle
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Statoil/C-CORE Iceberg Classifier (Image Recognition) Challenge
- Ranked 118th out of 3343 teams (top 4%), silver medal


## Education
### Master's degree
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### SCPD in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor's degree
Wuhan University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shangwu-yao
- Website: http://shangwuyao.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-20