About Akira
English
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Chinese
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Experience
- KogSenior AI Product EngineerJanuary 2024 - April 2026 (2 years and 3 months)• Achieved a 25% reduction in inference latency for a production-grade image generation pipeline by implementing advanced caching, torch compile, and float8 quantization, while integrating complex workflows including ControlNet, IP-Adapter, and LoRA.• Created AI-powered game creation platform featuring a LangGraph-based coding agent with multi-agent architecture and RAG-powered context retrieval, enabling autonomous game generation and iterative refinement.• Achieved 8x payload reduction for VLM segmentation masks via custom binary compression, cutting response latency and enabling real-time inference.• Reduced infrastructure costs by implementing shared model caching across ML servers, eliminating redundant loads and optimizing GPU memory utilization.• Engineered production ML orchestration servers with Python, FastAPI and Pydantic, partnering closely with the frontend team to integrate NVIDIA A100 GPU-backed ML endpoints into the product with stable, well-specified request/response contracts and Azure cloud storage integration.• Enabled semantic image search by building vector pipeline (vision embeddings, pgvector), replacing keyword-based retrieval with visual similarity matching.• Scaled synthetic data generation to 10,000+ samples/day using TypeScript/Puppeteer automation, eliminating manual orchestration across ML servers.• Accelerated ML development cycles by 2x with Gradio-based QA tooling, enabling rapid visual regression testing and real-time output comparison.• Iterated on the product by translating UX needs into ML-backed features with strong focus on latency, scalability, and maintainability.
- ArianeeData ScientistNovember 2022 - December 2023 (1 year and 1 month)• Unlocked personalized discovery for users by building an NFT recommendation system with EfficientNet embeddings and hybrid filtering• Reduced fraud risk by building a Dagster-orchestrated anomaly detection system that automatically flagged suspicious blockchain transactions, with Neo4j visualizations to trace and track fraudulent activity• Empowered marketing and product teams with user personas by designing Dagster ETL pipelines on GCP that processed blockchain data at scale• Enabled data-driven operations by architecting a real-time Looker Studio dashboard that monitored 1-2M+ blockchain transactions, integrating BigQuery and PostgreSQL
- SaiciAIData EngineerJanuary 2021 - January 2022 (1 year)• Engineered automated data collection system using Python and Selenium, extracting structured datasets from 5+ region-specific social media platforms and reducing manual collection time by 90%.• Designed and deployed scalable ETL pipelines processing 10,000+ records daily, transforming unstructured social media data into ML-ready feature sets in PostgreSQL.• Integrated Airbyte for real-time data streaming to BigQuery, reducing analyst wait times from hours to minutes and enabling rapid model iteration cycles.• Built and deployed YOLO-based object detection pipeline for automated content classification across 50+ categories, eliminating manual tagging workflow.
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Education
- Master's degreeCentraleSupélec2022
- Bachelor's degreeTsinghua University2021
Certifications
- IBM RAG and Agentic AIIBM2026
- Advanced RAG with Vector Databases and RetrieversIBM2026