Chih-Chieh Yang is a research staff member in the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Research Department at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He received both his B.S. and M.S. from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan. He accumulated industry experiences working for MediaTek, a top Taiwanese IC design house, as a software engineer for several years before starting and eventually earning his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He joined IBM after completing his Ph.D. His past research experiences include designing software components that facilitate the development of distributed applications, high-level parallel programming abstractions, scaling distributed machine learning applications to both state-of-the-art supercomputers and future extreme-scale HPC systems, and optimizing cloud control plane software design. He currently focuses on performance optimization and automation of large-scale Foundation Model deployments on HPC and Cloud-based systems.
