Hongpeng Guo
Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance
📍 San Francisco, California, United States
Hongpeng Guo is a Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance, specializing in large-scale machine learning systems. With a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, his expertise lies in developing infrastructure for reinforcement learning and foundation model training. His background includes roles at Anyscale, Google, and Jane Street.
He developed "Verl, " an open-source framework designed to make reinforcement learning for large language models more efficient and scalable.
Read the full overview →Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Senior Research Scientist
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Priorities
Topics Hongpeng cares about
Scalable Reinforcement Learning
He develops large-scale RL infrastructures at ByteDance and co-created Verl, an open-source framework for building end-to-end RL pipelines with large language models.
Foundation Model Training
His team at ByteDance focuses on building impactful systems for both pre-training and post-training of large language and vision models.
Career
Work history
3-2025
Senior Research Scientist
ByteDance
4-2024 - 3-2025
Machine Learning Engineer
Anyscale
5-2023 - 8-2023
Quantitative Trading Intern
Jane Street
5-2022 - 8-2022
Software Engineer Intern (Machine Learning)
Meta
5-2021 - 8-2021
Software Engineer Intern
Google
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Education
2018 - 2-2024
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2014 - 2018
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
The University of Hong Kong
Social presence
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