Luo Mai
Associate Professor
University of Edinburgh
I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where I lead the Large-Scale Machine Learning Systems Group. I also co-lead the UK EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Learning Systems and a UK ARIA Project on Scaling AI Compute.
My research group works across the full stack of machine learning systems – from models and data to systems and software – pursuing co-designs that can collectively achieve a 1000× leap in efficiency, scalability, and reliability. My work has been recognized with research awards and rising-star honors from both academia and industry. I am passionate about open-source and knowledge exchange. I co-founded open-source AI system libraries that have collectively received over 20,000 GitHub stars and co-edited the open-source textbook Machine Learning Systems: Design and Implementation.
Before joining Edinburgh, I was a Research Associate at Imperial College London, working with Peter Pietzuch, and a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research. My PhD, supervised by Paolo Costa and Alexander L. Wolf, was supported by a Google Fellowship in Cloud Computing.
Interests
- Computer Systems
- Machine Learning
- Data Management
Education
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PhD in Computer Science, 2018
Imperial College London, UK
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MRes in Advanced Computing, 2012
Imperial College London, UK