Industry

Deep Learning Compiler Intern, Nvidia

August 2026 – December 2026 · Austin, TX

Verification of Tile IR compiler.

Software Engineering Intern (AI & Infrastructure), Google

May 2026 – August 2026 · Kirkland, WA

PD-disaggregated LLM inference benchmarking, and extension of gemma.cpp.

Research

  1. Understanding and Finding JIT Compiler Performance Bugs

    Zijian Yi, Cheng Ding, August Shi, and Milos Gligoric

    Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), 2026

  2. Speeding up the Local C++ Development Cycle with Header Substitution

    Nader Al Awar, Zijian Yi, George Biros, and Milos Gligoric

    International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), 2025

  3. In-memory Object Graph Stores

    Aditya Thimmaiah, Zijian Yi, Joseph Kenis, Christopher J. Rossbach, and Milos Gligoric

    European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), 2025

Teaching

M 408M: Multivariate Calculus

Teaching assistant · The University of Texas at Austin · Fall 2026

Course website

ECE 382V: Cloud Native App Development

Teaching assistant · The University of Texas at Austin · Spring 2026

ECE 382V: Programming Paradigms

Teaching assistant · The University of Texas at Austin · Fall 2025