Welcome to Zeyi Wen's Homepage

Dr. Zeyi Wen is Assistant Professor at the Data Science and Analytics (DSA) Thrust of Information Hub at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou (HKUST-GZ). Before joining HKUST-GZ, he was Lecturer at The University of Western Australia (UWA), Research Fellow at National University of Singapore and The University of Melbourne after PhD completion at The University of Melbourne. Dr. Wen was a winner of Best Paper Award at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 2019. His research work has led to open-source ML systems including ThunderGBM Star and ThunderSVM Star. He is an Action Editor (AE) of MLOSS section for the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).

Jun 2024: Our paper on Bayesian Network Learning was accepted by IEEE TPDS.
May 2024: Our paper on PGM inference acceleration was accepted by USENIX ATC'24.
Feb 2024: Our paper on Hyper-parameter Optimization with Adaptive Fidelity was accepted by CVPR'24.
Jan 2024: Our paper on Bandit-based Hyperparameter Optimization was accepted by ICDE'24.

Machine Learning Systems, Automatic Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing

Current Courses at HKUST-GZ

Past Courses at UWA

Current graduate students and their research

Name	Research
Chengxi Liao (PhD student since Fall 2024)	Long context LLM inference
Tong Yuan (PhD student since Fall 2024)	Privacy preserving ML
Rui Zhang (PhD student since Fall 2024)	Accelerating kernel machine training
Xinhao Huang (PhD student from Spring 2024)	Efficient reinforcement learning for LLMs and MLsys
Youliang Huang (MPhil student from Fall 2023)	Efficient fine-tuning for LLMs
Zhenya Zheng (Visiting MPhil student from Fall 2023)	Automatic feature engineering
Jihang Li (PhD student since Fall 2023)	Learning operator acceleration with GPUs
Minping Chen (PhD student since Fall 2023)	Efficient fine-tuning for LLMs
Yuebin Xu (PhD student since Fall 2023)	Hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) for LLMs
Xuemei Peng (PhD student since Spring 2023)	Efficient LLM serving
Yile Chen (Visiting PhD student since 2022)	Hyper-parameter optimization (HPO)
Hanfeng Liu (PhD student since Fall 2022)	Parallel GBDT training

2024: KDD, NeurIPS, AAAI, CIKM, EDBT, EMNLP
2023: KDD, SC, AAAI, CIKM, WSDM, SIGIR, ECML-PKDD, CCGrid,
2022: KDD, SC, AAAI, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, CVPR, ECCV
2021: KDD, AAAI, SIGIR, WSDM, ICDCS, HiPC (Track Vice-Chair), ICPADS, CCGrid, CLUSTER
HiPC'20, ICDCS'20, ISC'20 (HPC), SBAC-PAD'20, SIGIR'20, ADC'20, CIKM'19, CSS'17