Lorri Rao
AI Performance Engineer (MTS) at AMD
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLorri Rao is an AI Performance Engineer (MTS) at AMD with a PhD in Computer Engineering from USC and nine years of industry and research experience focused on hardware-accelerated machine learning. She brings deep expertise in ML accelerator microarchitecture, systolic arrays, GEMM dataflows, and sparse computation from her doctoral research and teaching roles updating USC’s hardware curriculum. At USC she combined research and pedagogy—designing course content on ML coprocessors and graph-ML interfaces—demonstrating an ability to translate cutting-edge research into practical learning modules. Now based in San Jose, she applies that research-driven mindset to optimize AI model performance on real products, bridging academic rigor with semiconductor-scale deployment. Her background as a teaching assistant and student volunteer also gives her strong communication and mentorship skills that help cross-functional teams adopt complex hardware-aware ML optimizations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (196)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Z-Y00/libs
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
heptagonhust/about
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
华科七边形，欢迎各位朋友的指导与交流。
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 88 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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