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About Me
I enjoy cooking 🍳, painting 🎨, hiking 🥾, gaming 🎮, anime, trading, and boba tea 🧋.
My Chinese name is 刘佳伟 🇨🇳.
Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch 🇩🇪 (I speak a little German).
I am grateful to Tom and Steven for helping me improve my English when I first came to the US 🌽.
Useful Resources
UIUC Beamer-style Google slides - A template for academic presentations in UIUC style.
Favorite Quotes
“Simplicity is the prerequisite for reliability.”
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”
— Linus’ Law (Eric S. Raymond)
Fun Facts
- I’ve found over 300 bugs in major ML frameworks through systematic testing
- My code generation tools have been downloaded over 1 million times
- I once spent 48 hours straight debugging a race condition in a distributed system (worth it!)
- My favorite debugging technique: rubber duck debugging with an actual rubber duck collection
Current Interests
- Research: Exploring the intersection of program synthesis and large language models
- Technical: Learning Rust for systems programming
- Personal: Perfecting my latte art skills ☕
- Reading: Currently working through “The Art of Computer Programming” by Knuth
Contact
Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss research, collaboration opportunities, or just chat about interesting technical problems!