Yuxiong He is a Distinguished AI Engineer at Snowflake, spearheading the development and research of Large Language Models (LLMs). As a pivotal co-leader of the Arctic project, she collaborates with a team of exceptional AI professionals to develop the Snowflake suite of foundational models. Her dedication to innovation is matched by her commitment to open source and open research, striving to build transformative and high-performing AI technologies.
Previously, Yuxiong held the position of Partner Research and Product Manager at Microsoft, where she co-founded and led the DeepSpeed project. This industry-leading, open-source deep learning optimization library introduced groundbreaking innovations like ZeRO, 3D parallelism, and ZeroQuant. These advancements have significantly accelerated and democratized the training and inference processes of cutting-edge LLMs, making them more accessible to everyone in need.
Yuxiong has published over 100 papers in major computer science conferences and journals. Her work has been recognized among the best papers at esteemed venues such as SIGIR, ICDE, WSDM, and Middleware, and her research continues to be widely applied in diverse systems and products.