Alvin· Wan
Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI
About
I make Large Language Models run faster. My Mandarin is no better than a kindergartener's. The · in my first name is intentional -- to weed out spam. research.alvinwan.com
United States
San Francisco Bay Area
Consumer Electronics
Public Speaking, Leadership, Research, Teaching, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Web Design, Web Development, Python, Social Networking, Java, OS X, Photography, Journalism, Marketing Operations, Community Outreach, Marketing, Still Photography, Leading Development Teams
Experience
Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI
Shipped and optimized inference for GPT 4.1 (doubled context length), GPT 4.5 (multimodal), GPT 5
Senior Research Scientist
Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Trained and deployed Apple Intelligence’s first low-precision foundation models. Deployed M*-specific optimizations. Hosted interns, facilitated UC Berkeley sponsorship. Published UPSCALE at ICML‘23
Lecturer
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
Instructor of Record for Computer Science (CS375, Su'21) and Data Science (D100, Fa'21)
Machine Learning Engineer
Rex Homes
Redwood City, California, United States
Deployed a multi-party scheduler handling 300+ showings, 3,000+ messages per month
Autopilot AI Intern
Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
Deployed two of AutoPilot's first radar-less FSD models to production, which improved safety-critical neural network predictions for pedestrians, bicyclists, animals etc.
Research Intern
Menlo Park, California, United States
Research Neural Architecture Search to search for family of low-latency neural networks; published FBNetV2 at CVPR 2020 and FBNetV3 at CVPR 2021
Head Student Instructor
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
- 20-hour TA for Machine Learning (Sp17, Fa17, Sp18, Su18, Fa19), Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory (Sp16, Fa16, Sp17), Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Fa15) - 4.83/5.00 rating, redesigned ML curriculum, responsible for 70+ person staff and 1000+ students - Built datascience package and Ok.py autograder (together, 100k+ annual downloads)
Research Intern
DeepScale
Mountain View, California
Fused sensor data to produce higher-resolution point clouds, improving downstream object detection
Software Engineering Intern
Menlo Park
Halved number of network requests for photo gallery and centralized media load for Android Messenger
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science
Received NSF GRFP -- 1 of 20 nation-wide ML recipients, representing ~0.1% of 12,000+ applicants. Published 6 papers with 1000+ citations across CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, ICRA.
University of California, Berkeley
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Microsoft Imagine Cup International Top 6 Finalist for Big Data ('18) - Adobe Design Awards International Semifinalist for Fine Arts ('17, '18) - Samuel J Silver Memorial Award ('18) - Adobe Design Awards International Semifinalist for Social Impact ('17, '18) - Microsoft Imagine Cup United States Nationals 2nd Place ('18) - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship ('17) - Rookies Co. International Top 16 for "Web & Mobile" design ('17) - Dean's Honor List ('16) - Leadership Award ('16) - Regents' and Chancellors' Scholarship ('15)
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