Author

Shuaiwen Leon Song is a senior principal scientist and manager at Microsoft. He leads the effort of Deepspeed4Science initiative to create a broad engagement between Microsoft, Microsoft research, DoE labs, academia and industry partners to enable sophisticated system technology research and development for supporting aspects of training and inference for large-scale AI-driven scientific models. At DeepSpeed, he also drives or co-drives several pathfinding projects and releases (e.g., ZeRO inference, scalable dialogue system design and DeepSpeed Chat) and co-manages the Brainwave team. Prior to Microsoft, he was the SOAR associate professor at University of Sydney and an adjunct professor at University of Washington. His past works in HPC have received several best paper nominations and were featured in U.S. DoE research highlights and other media outlets. He was the recipient of several awards including IEEE early-career award for HPC, IEEE mid-career award for scalable computing, Facebook faculty award, Google brain faculty award, Australian most innovative engineer award, AIR global faculty award. He is also an ACM distinguished speaker.