Simon Shaolei Du
About
Simon Shaolei Du is an assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington. His research interests are broadly in machine learning such as deep learning, representation learning, reinforcement learning and data selection. Prior to starting as faculty, Du was a postdoc at Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton, hosted by Sanjeev Arora. He completed his Ph.D. in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was co-advised by Aarti Singh and Barnabás Póczos. Previously, he studied EECS and EMS at UC Berkeley. He has also spent time at Simons Institute and research labs of Meta, Google and Microsoft.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Maxios: Large scale nonnegative matrix factorization for collaborative filtering
Year: 2014
Citations: 13
Venue: Proceedings of the NIPS 2014 Workshop on Distributed Matrix Computations
Latest Recorded Paper
SHARP: Accelerating Language Model Inference by SHaring Adjacent layers with Recovery Parameters
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.07832
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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