Yinghui He (何映晖)
Education
Princeton University
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science. Advised by Sanjeev Arora.
Sep 2024 — Jun 2029 (Anticipated)
University of Michigan
B.S.E. in Computer Science & B.S. (Minor) in Mathematics · GPA 3.98 / 4.00
Sep 2022 — May 2024
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering · GPA 3.93 / 4.00 · Ranking 1 / 221
Sep 2022 — Aug 2024
Projects & Publications
See Selected Publications on the homepage.
Internship
NVIDIA
Research Scientist Intern (Incoming)
May 2026 — Aug 2026
- Expected to work on the Reinforcement Learning as a Pretraining Objective project, developing and evaluating methods to integrate RL signals into large-scale pretraining.
VMware
Research Intern
Jul 2022 — Oct 2022
- Studied algorithms and applications of federated analytics; proposed optimization methods on federated analytics.
Scholarships
Chinese National Scholarship
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. Highest scholarship in China awarded to Top 1% college students.
Fan Xuji Scholarship
Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Highest SJTU scholarship awarded to 18 all-round developed students.
SJTU Undergraduate Excellence Scholarship
Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Awarded to top-ranking (10%) students.
John Wu and Jane Sun Excellence Scholarship
UM-SJTU Joint Institute. Highest scholarship in UM-SJTU Joint Institute awarded to 10 all-round developed students.
The Jackson and Muriel Lum Scholarship
UM-SJTU Joint Institute. Awarded to 5 excellent students in the dual-degree program.
Technical Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, C++, C, C#, Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL
- Model Training: Multi-node & distributed training, Verl, TRL (Transformers Reinforcement Learning), LoRA, DeepSpeed, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, NumPy, pandas
- Model Inference: vLLM, Hugging Face Transformers, Accelerate, quantization & efficient serving
- Agentic Frameworks: LangChain, AutoGen, Hugging Face Hub, APIs
- Data Science & Mathematical Tools: pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, SciPy, Jupyter, Colab, MATLAB, R, Mathematica, SymPy
Honors & Awards
Dean's List
Outstanding GPA · University of Michigan
Mathematical Contest in Modelling
Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications
University Physics Competition
UPC Committee
Media University-Enterprise Global Innovation Competition
Media Shanghai
UN Global Youth Leadership Academy Summer Learning Program
GYLA
Teaching & Advising
Teaching Assistant
Physics II (60 students), Chemistry I (150 students)
Sep 2021 — Aug 2022
Student Advisor
UM-SJTU Joint Institute Advising Center
Sep 2021 — Aug 2022
Writing Consultant
UM-SJTU Joint Institute Writing Center
Sep 2021 — Aug 2023