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Bo Li

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Senior Principal Software Engineer, Engineer Manager for Efficient ML at SambaNova Systems
📍 Berkeley, California, United States

Bo Li is a Software Engineer at SambaNova Systems focused on efficient machine learning and large language models. Holding a Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley, he has a strong background in developing distributed model training systems and has co-authored multiple research papers.

He is an accomplished mathematician who placed in the top 200 of the prestigious Putnam Competition. His academic excellence was also recognized with an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from UC Berkeley, indicating a potential passion for mentorship and education.

He built and publicly shared a Hugging Face space that simulates chats between any two characters, powered by SambaNovas cloud API.

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Experience
4 Years
Current Role
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Engineer Manager for Efficient ML
Job Level
Middle
Location
Berkeley, California, United States
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Multilingual LLMs
His team at SambaNova developed and published "SambaLingo, " a project focused on teaching large language models new languages, with papers presented at EMNLP.
ML Systems
He expresses excitement for building ML applications on advanced hardware and software, and previously engineered distributed model training systems using Dask and Kubernetes.
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Work history

5-2024
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Engineer Manager for Efficient ML
SambaNova Systems
5-2023 - 5-2024
Principal Software Engineer
SambaNova Systems
6-2021 - 5-2023
Senior Software Engineer
SambaNova Systems
5-2020 - 7-2020
Research Infrastructure Engineer
Theorem LP
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Education
2016 - 2021
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
University of California, Berkeley
2012 - 2016
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Harvey Mudd College
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