Hui Xu

Research Assistant @ Stony Brook University College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

About

I have 6 years software engineer experience, 3 years start-up and 3 years international company. I want to build products that are valuable for individuals. To achieve this, I study and apply the artificial intelligence, distributed systems, algorithms, and GPU optimization.

Country

United States

City

Stony Brook

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Tool-Augmented LLMs, AgentBeats, Distributed Systems, GPU optimization, Paxos, CUDA, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Anthropic Claude, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Lacanian psychoanalysis , Memcached, HBase, Message Queue, Django, Full-Stack Development, Front-End Development, Front-end Engineering, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), iOS Development, Deep Learning

Experience

Research Assistant

Stony Brook University College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

2025-6 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

MAQuA: Adaptive Question-Asking for Multidimensional Mental Health Screening using Item Response Theory (Accepted to EACL 2026) Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07279

Research Assistant

Stony Brook University

2024-10 - 2024-12 · 3 mos

Proteus: Towards a Manageability-focused Home-based Health Monitoring Infrastructure

Software Engineer II

Mastercard

2021-11 - 2024-7 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Beijing, China

Built Test & Learn on-premises, a business analytic product for banks. The analytic algorithms are written in Jupyter Notebook as a MVP, what we need to do is to turn MVP to a product that the clients can use from the web browser. The language we use are Python and TypeScript. We were an international team, the PMs were from Dubai, India, UK and USA, the develop team was from China and India. We use Jira, Confluence, Figma to collaborate.

Python Engineer

大账房

2018-7 - 2021-10 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Beijing, China

Maintained and optimized the OCR system for Smart Finance and Taxation. The whole system contains intelligent bill recognition, invoice verification, and external service API distributed on about 10 machines. I wrote the algorithms to reduced human intervention and increase the speed of the whole system.

Education

Stony Brook University

Engineering Artificial Intelligence

2024-9 - Present · 2 yrs

CSE 535 Distributed Systems; ESE 565 Parallel Processing Architectures; CSE 538 Natural Language Processing; CSE 590-01 Vision-Language Foundation Models; ESE 592 Distributed Computation, Control and Learning Over Networks; ESE 561 Theory of Artificial Intelligence; ESE 588 Fundamentals of Machine Learning; ESE 525 Modern Sensors in AI applications; ESE 577 Deep Learning Algorithms and Software; ESE 590 Practical Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence; ESE 503 Stochastic Systems;