Staff

Instructor

Hao Zhang

he/him

Office Hours: Every Wed 4-5pm at HDSI 440.

Hao is an Assistant Professor at HDSI and CSE. Hao has developed several popular open models and systems such as Vicuna and vLLM. This is the Hao’s first time teaching as a faculty.

Teaching Assistants

Anze Xie

HE/HIM

a1xie@ucsd.edu

Office Hours: Every Tues 3:45-4:45 on Zoom

Anze is a second-year master’s student at the CSE department. His interests lie in large-scale machine-learning systems and algorithms. He is currently working in Prof. Hao Zhang’s lab.

Atharva Kshirsagar

HE/HIM

akshirsagar@ucsd.edu

Office Hours: Every Monday 4-5pm on Zoom

I am a second year master’s student in the CSE department. My research interests lie in large language models, and systems that make them run cheaper and faster. I currently work in Prof. Zhang’s lab.

Sumanth Hegde

He/Him

s1hegde@ucsd.edu

Office Hours: Every Thurs 4-5 pm on Zoom

I’m a second-year master’s student in the CSE department. My interests are in generative models. I’m currently working in Julian McAuley’s lab on language models.