About me

Hello, I am Eric (Chinese name: 蕭健恒).

Quote: 回首向來蕭瑟處,歸去,也無風雨也無晴。(蘇軾,《定風波》)

Education

  • MSc in Computer Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Sep 2024 - Jul 2025)
    • Awarded Dean’s List (CGPA: 3.925/4.000)
  • BSc in Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (Aug 2020 - Jun 2024)
    • Completed Artificial Intelligence Study Stream and Data Science Study Stream
    • Awarded magna cum laude (top 7% in CGPA ranking)

Publications

Feng, Y., Tan, X., Sew, K. H., Jiang, Y., Zhu, Y., & Xu, H. (2025). Frontier: Simulating the next generation of LLM inference systems. Accepted at the 4th Workshop on Practical Adoption Challenges of ML for Systems (PACMI ‘25) [arXiv]

Work Experience

  • Junior Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Aug 2025 - Present)
    • Supervisor: Prof. Hong Xu
  • IT Assistant, JUPAS Office, The University of Hong Kong (Jul 2024 - Aug 2024)
    • Developed web applications using Java (Apache Wicket, Apache Tomcat)
    • Developed browser automation using Python (Selenium)
  • Student Programmer, The Bank of East Asia, Limited (Jul 2023 - Jun 2024)
    • Supported consumer loan projects using Oracle database (SQL Developer) and Unix System
    • Developed web applications using Java (JavaServer Pages) and JavaScript

Selected Awards

  • Dean’s List Scholarship 2024-25 (2025)
  • Shanghai Commercial Bank Scholarships (2024)
  • HKSAR Government Scholarship (2023)
  • Reasonable Software Scholarships (2022)

Selected Talk

  • SIGCOMM Paper Reading Group (Aug 2025, virtual): [Bilibili (In English))]
    • Introduced an NSDI’25 paper as a student volunteer
  • WACV 2025 CV4Smalls Workshop (Feb 2025, virtual): [YouTube]
    • Presented our team’s second-place solution in the Elderly Action Recognition Challenge at the WACV 2025 CV4Smalls Workshop (2nd out of 23 teams)

Programming

  • Codeforces: [ericskh2]
    • OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 perform better than me :)
  • LeetCode: [ericskh12]
    • Highest contest rating: 2340 (Top 5% site-wide)

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, Java, SQL, C/C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Go
  • Machine Learning Systems: PyTorch, NVIDIA Nsight Systems, NVIDIA Nsight Compute, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, vLLM
  • Language: Cantonese (Native), English (IELTS Academic Overall 7.5, L 9.0, R 8.5, W 7.0, S 6.0, Sep 2025), Mandarin (Fluent)