Portrait of Mingyu Yang

Mingyu Yang

Senior Deep Learning Algorithm Engineer

Nemo Team @ NVIDIA

Biography

I am a Senior Deep Learning Algorithm Engineer at the Nemo Team of NVIDIA, working on efficient LLM, model compression, and knowledge distillation. Before joining NVIDIA, I worked as an MTS Software Development Engineer at the Efficient GenAI team of AMD, focusing on LLM acceleration, hybrid LLM models, and large-scale training optimization.

I received my Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2025 and 2019, supervised by Prof. Hun-Seok Kim. Prior to that, I earned my B.Eng. from Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) and University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland in 2017.

Selected Publications Full list on Google Scholar

  • arXiv'26 CSD: Common-Support Distillation for Cross-Tokenizer Knowledge Transfer. Paper

    Mingyu Yang, Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Adithyakrishna Venkatesh Hanasoge, Nima Tajbakhsh, Ashwath Aithal, Pavlo Molchanov

  • arXiv'26 X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer Knowledge Distillation. Paper

    Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas*, Adithyakrishna Venkatesh Hanasoge*, Mingyu Yang*, Ali Taghibakhshi, Saurav Muralidharan, Ashwath Aithal, Pavlo Molchanov

  • NeurIPS'25 Zebra-Llama: Towards Extremely Efficient Hybrid Models. Paper Code Models Blog

    Mingyu Yang*, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh*, Guihong Li*, Vikram Appia, Emad Barsoum

  • COLM'25 X-EcoMLA: Upcycling Pre-Trained Attention into MLA for Efficient and Extreme KV Compression. Paper

    Guihong Li*, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh*, Mingyu Yang*, Vikram Appia, Emad Barsoum

  • TMLCN'25 Diffusion-Aided Joint Source Channel Coding for High Realism Wireless Image Transmission. Paper Code

    Mingyu Yang, Bowen Liu, Boyang Wang, Hun-Seok Kim

  • ICRA'25 SAM-Guided Pseudo Label Enhancement for Multi-Modal 3D Semantic Segmentation. Paper

    Mingyu Yang, Jitong Lu, Hun-Seok Kim

  • ICCV'23 Efficient Computation Sharing for Multi-Task Visual Scene Understanding. Paper Code

    Sara Shoouri, Mingyu Yang, Zichen Fan, Hun-Seok Kim

  • ECCV'22 Efficient Deep Visual and Inertial Odometry with Adaptive Visual Modality Selection. Paper Code

    Mingyu Yang*, Yu Chen*, Hun-Seok Kim

  • ICASSP'22 Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Wireless Image Transmission with Adaptive Rate Control. Paper Code

    Mingyu Yang, Hun-Seok Kim

  • TCCN'22 OFDM-Guided Deep Joint Source Channel Coding for Wireless Multipath Fading Channels. Paper Code

    Mingyu Yang, Chenghong Bian, Hun-Seok Kim

  • MobiCom'21 mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Multi-Modal Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking. Paper

    Inhee Lee, Roger Hsiao, Gordy Carichner, Chin-Wei Hsu, Mingyu Yang, Sara Shoouri, Katherine Ernst, Tess Carichner, Yuyang Li, Jaechan Lim, Cole R Julick, Eunseong Moon, Yi Sun, Jamie Phillips, Kristi L Montooth, Delbert A Green, Hun-Seok Kim, David Blaauw

  • EUSIPCO'20 Migrating Monarch Butterfly Localization Using Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion Neural Networks. Paper

    Mingyu Yang, Roger Hsiao, Gordy Carichner, Katherine Ernst, Jaechan Lim, Delbert A Green, Inhee Lee, David Blaauw, Hun-Seok Kim

  • INFOCOM'19 iLPS: Local Positioning System with Simultaneous Localization and Wireless Communication. Paper

    Mingyu Yang, Li-Xuan Chuo, Karan Suri, Lu Liu, Hao Zheng, Hun-Seok Kim

* Equal contribution.

Professional Services

I have served as a reviewer for the following conferences and journals.

  • Conferences NeurIPS 2023–2025; ICLR 2024–2025, 2027; ICML 2024–2025; AAAI 2025–2027; CVPR 2024–2026; ICCV 2025; ECCV 2026; ICRA 2024–2025; IROS 2025; ICASSP 2024–2025.
  • Journals IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC); IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC); IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM); IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN); IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN); IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL); IEEE Communications Letters (CL); IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC); IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT); IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP); IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL); IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT).

Honors & Awards

  • Best 10 Graduates, Beijing University of Technology 2017
  • China National Scholarship, Beijing University of Technology 2016
  • President Scholarship, Beijing University of Technology 2016