Hey, finally you are here. Welcome to Changran's LinkedIn profile, I'm passionate founder and engineer working on Generative AI, particularly in LLMs, Synthetic Data, Code Generatino, Music Generation. Here are some highlights of my professional experience:• Lead ML, Foundation Modeling team at SambaNova. My team work with Foundation Modeling on next generation Hardware. 1. LLMs, Multi Modal, Domain Adaptation, Synthetic Data, Long Context. To build Enterprise Grade LLM solution. 2. ML-Hardware Co-design, research on 0 to 1 breakthrough on new Model Architectures, Algorithms for the next generation AI Accelerator, aka RDU :)• Co-founder of DeepMusic when I was 20, an AI Music Generation company that secured a $10 million investment from a top Chinese company and partnerships with major Chinese pop-stars such as Jay Chou and Jian Li. You will have your own music, soon.• Graduated from U.C. Berkeley and Tsinghua University. Honored with the Tsinghua Supreme Award, top 0.1%.I am also interested in AI + digital companion, AI + counseling, AI + art.If you want to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI. Reach out to changran_hu@berkeley.edu ! It never hurts to ask.If you are interested in working at SambaNova, feel free to apply through https://sambanova.ai/careers/
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Member Of Technical StaffXaiSunnyvale, Ca, Us -
Senior Engineer Manager - Foundation Ml, ModelingSambanova Systems Sep 2024 - PresentPalo Alto, Ca, UsMy team working on building Enterprise Grade Foundation Model on our in-house Hardware.1. LLMs, Multi Modal, Domain Adaptation, Synthetic Data, Long Context. To build Enterprise Grade LLM solution.2. ML-Hardware Co-design, research on 0 to 1 breakthrough on new Model Architectures, Algorithms for the next generation AI Accelerator, aka RDU :)We are hiring! -
Engineering Manager - Applied AiSambanova Systems Jun 2023 - Dec 2024Palo Alto, Ca, UsSteer a cutting-edge team positioned at the intersection of groundbreaking generative AI research and industrial business needs, driving real-world impact. Command the development of next-gen LLM-powered tools that set industry benchmarks.Supervise projects leveraging prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented pipelines, domain-specific LLM adaptations, instruction tuning, pre-training, RLHF, RLAIF, software-hardware co-design and more.Connect researchers, product managers, and engineers, orchestrating tailored AI solutions for a global audience.Advocate for methodologies that guarantee rapid and effective LLM integration, amplifying SambaNova's trajectory to customer success.
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Principle Ml EngineerSambanova Systems Jun 2021 - Oct 2023Palo Alto, Ca, Us• Pioneered the development of Enterprise Generative AI solution, improving ML development efficiency and accelerating enterprise solution delivery.• Drive the development of BLOOMChat-176B-v1, the first open-sourced 100+ billion parameters multilingual chat LLM. Chat here! https://huggingface.co/spaces/sambanovasystems/BLOOMChat• Co-design the methodologies to scale AI SoC design for high-performance training and inference, facilitating advanced AI tech implementation in real-world applications.(bullet points above summarized by BLOOMChat)
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MemberChinese Entrepreneurs Organization Jun 2021 - Present -
Co PresidentAssociation Of Chinese Entrepreneurs (Ace) At Berkeley May 2024 - PresentBerkeley, California, Us -
Core MemberThe Lighthouse Mentorship Program 领航计划 Jun 2023 - May 2024Mountain View, Ca, UsCore member of the Light House (Linghang) Program -
Aacyf Top 30 Under 30All America Chinese Youth Federation Feb 2023 - Mar 2023Glad to share that I have been selected for the AACYF Top 30 Under 30 list. The AACYF Top 30 Under 30 list is an annual award that recognizes outstanding young Chinese in the U.S. and under the age of 30 who excel in their fields and contribute to society. I am honored to be selected for this prestigious list and grateful for the recognition. Looking forward to continuing my work in the fields of Generative AI, GPT, AIGC and more. -
Applied Scientist InternMicrosoft May 2020 - Jan 2021Redmond, Washington, Us• Applied NLP techniques on automated software engineering, specifically in code completion.• Worked on BART based seq2seq code function generation, using retrieved code snippets from codebase and Stack Overflow as extra information. -
Co-FounderDeepmusic Jan 2017 - Jul 2020• Founded a company which devoted to generate music with machine learning. Grew company to 30 employees and secured $10 million investment from GGV, Tencent, Amino Capital and secured partnerships with Chinese popstars such as Jay Chou and Jian Li.• Extended company products and services into Music Generation, Text Generation and Text-To-Speech for multiple businesses in China, impacting global products.
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Nlp Tech LeadDeepmusic Jan 2018 - Jul 2019• Developed a Lyrics generating system independently using Deep Neural Networks (Transformer, BERT and GPT2), and surpassed the state-of-the-art by 30% in double blind experiment. The system has created over 7,000 lyrics by users. Created containers in Docker to enable usage of technology by other teams.• Served as technical lead for producing an automatic Structural Music Composition system. Extracted the structure of given text then designed a model to generate the chord and melody sequentially.
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Full Stack EngineerDeepmusic Jan 2018 - Jul 2019• Implemented a website for users to interactively write and modify lyrics with the lyrics generation system using React JS (front-end), and Flask (back-end). Implemented cache and message broker with Redis.
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Teaching AssistantUniversity Of California, Berkeley Sep 2019 - Jan 2020Berkeley, Ca, UsTA for Natural Language Processing at U.C. Berkeley -
Research InternTsinghua University Jun 2015 - Dec 2017北京, Beijing, CnAutomatic Melody Generation• Proposed a hierarchical recurrent neural network for melody generation, which outperformed a classic model proposed by Google Magenta. Awarded the Grand Prize of Tsinghua Challenge Cup (1/381).
Changran Hu Education Details
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Tsinghua UniversityElectronic Engineering -
University Of California, BerkeleyInformation Management And Systems
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Changran Hu works for Xai
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Changran Hu's current role is Member of Technical Staff.
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Changran Hu attended Tsinghua University, University Of California, Berkeley.
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Changran Hu's colleagues are Haydon Chapman, Mark M. Keller, Laurel Galvan, Andrew Ingram, Flynn Haley, Brandon F., Alan Zhao.
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