Zhewei Yao

Zhewei Yao

Senior Software Engineer
Zhewei Yao is a senior scientist and SDE II at Snowflake as a founding member of Snowflake large scale training. Before this, Zhewei was a principal researcher and R&D manager at Microsoft, working on efficient large scale training and inference. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Ph.D. researcher in https://bair.berkeley.edu/, https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/ (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/), https://deepdrive.berkeley.edu/, and https://math.berkeley.edu/.

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