Rui Wang

Rui Wang

Research Scientist

HeliXon Ltd.

Biography

I am a Research Scientist at HeliXon, a biotech start-up, where we build next-generation AI solutions to protein-based therapeutics. I obtained my B.Sc. from the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University where I had the privilege to work with Prof. David I. Inouye, Prof. Xiaoqian (Joy) Wang, Prof. Edward J. Delp, Prof. Matthew Ohland, Dr. Dan Ferguson, Prof. Yung-Hsiang Lu, Prof. Gaurav Nanda, and Prof. Saurabh Bagchi.

My research interests focus on understanding deep learning and building better models, both throughput-wise and performance-wise, especially at large scale.

I have contributed to opensource projects like NVIDIA/apex where I reduced the training memory of LayerNorm and RMSNorm layers down by orders of magnitudes to near zero.

Interests
  • Large Language Models
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Biology
  • Interpretable Machine Learning
Education
  • B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, 2020

    Purdue University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
HeliXon Ltd.
Research Scientist
Aug 2021 – Present Beijing
 
 
 
 
 
CATME at Purdue
Research Intern
May 2019 – May 2021 West Lafayette, IN