# Zijing Gu

> SDE @ Sambanova Systems, Inc

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zijing

I graduated with an M.S. in Computational Data Science with a Systems track at Carnegie Mellon University. I am interested in deep learning systems, ML compiler, ML performance and also general software development. Thank you for your interest and I would be happy to connect!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ SambaNova Systems
Jan 2021 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
LLM compiler and performance

### Software Engineering Intern @ Meemo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed a mobile application at a startup company that helps users manage personal finance. 
Built personalized features based on user data using Go and Flutter with Spanner and gRPC for client-server communications. 
Implemented streaming dataflow processor for user transaction data using Apache Beam running on Google Cloud Dataflow.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ UC San Diego
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Diego, California, United States
Analyzed the performances of LSTM and Transformers trained on neural machine translation datasets (WMT19) using BLEU scores. 
Researched on properties of model ensemble and knowledge distillation using ResNet on CIFAR datasets with PyTorch.

### Mathematics Grader @ UC San Diego
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Diego, California, United States
Ring theory, statistics, and calculus.

### Undergraduate Research Intern @ Scripps Research
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Diego, California, United States
Processed genetic sequences with Bash, visualized gene mapping using PCA and dendrogram with Python to prove gene linkage. 
Built deep neural networks including LSTM with TensorFlow to transfer knowledge on regulatory elements from human to mouse. 
Achieved the best test accuracy of over 80% on mouse data via domain adaptation (adaptive batch normalization, or AdaBN) for models trained on human data (20GB).

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Qualcomm Institute - UCSD Division of Calit2
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Diego, California, United States
Processed and analyzed geographical and health data with Python and ArcGIS Pro.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ UC San Diego
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, California, United States
Collected and processed data on teacher expertise to help sustain and diversify high school computer science education in San Diego.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computational Data Science - System
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics
UC San Diego

### High School
Christian Unified Schools of San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ceruleangu
- Portfolio: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/zijingg/

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Last updated: 2026-04-11