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About Qirong Ho

Dr. Qirong Ho is an Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

Biography

Dr. Qirong Ho joined MBZUAI as an Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department and the Acting Manager of the Center for Integrative Artificial Intelligence at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

Dr. Qirong Ho is Co-Founder and CTO at Petuum Inc., an AI startup recognized as one of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers. Petuum creates the standardized building blocks for assembling AI affordably and sustainably. Dr. Ho holds a Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University, and is part of the Technical Committee for the CASL (Composable, Automatic and Scalable ML) open-source consortium. Prior to his work at Petuum, Dr. Ho provided key Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning infrastructure solutions to technology, banking and telecommunications companies.

Positions

Present Assistant Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Department of Machine Learning
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Honors and Awards

  • Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, the 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2021 (OSDI '21)
  • Best Paper Award, Managed Communication and Consistency for Fast Data-Parallel Iterative Analytics, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2015 (SoCC 2015)
  • 2015 SIGKDD Dissertation Award (runner-up) for his doctoral thesis