Luo Mai

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 AI systems – from models and data to software and infrastructure – pursuing co-designs that aim to achieve a 1000× leap in efficiency, scalability, and reliability. My work has been recognized with several 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

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2018

    Imperial College London, UK

  • MRes in Advanced Computing, 2012

    Imperial College London, UK

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