Luo Mai
Assistant Professor
University of Edinburgh
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Starting August 2025, I’ll be promoted to Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor).
At Edinburgh, 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 an ambitious ARIA Project on Scaling AI Compute by 1000X.
My research interests lie at the intersection of computer systems, machine learning, and data management. My work has resulted in award-winning computer systems, recognized at top conferences such as OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, VLDB, JMLR, ICML, NeurIPS and ECCV. I have received awards from Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Tencent. I am the author of the open-source textbook Machine Learning Systems: Design and Implementation and co-founder of several popular open-source projects, such as TensorLayer, TorchOpt, and ServerlessLLM.
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