Yuan-Yao (Mike) Lou

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About

PhD @Purdue Distributed System Computer Network Wireless Communiation 5G Simulation Reinforcement Learning Software Engineer MLSys Performance LLM Training/Inference GPU Clusters

Skills

Publications

[12]

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cellular Networking in 5G/6G

(under review) Virtualized RAN Reinforcement Learning Resource Optimization System-level Simulator 5G NR Sub-6

[11]

6G EdgeAI: Performance Evaluation and Analysis

C.-S. Yang, Y.-J. Ku, Y.-Y. Lou, N. Tenny, Alex C.-C. Hsu

Preprint arXiv:2504.16529 [cs.DC]

arXiv Distributed Inference Large-Language Model (LLM) 5G NR 5G MEC Integrated Communication and Computing (ICC)

[10]

HopTrack: A Real-time Multi-Object Tracking System for Embedded Devices

X. Li, C. Chen, Y.-Y. Lou, M. Abdallah, K. T. Kim, S. Bagchi

Preprint arXiv:2411.00608 [cs.CV]

arXiv Computer Vision Deep Learning Multi-Object Tracking Real-time Comunication Embedded Device

[9]

E-MPC: Edge-assisted Model Predictive Control

Y.-Y. Lou, J. Spencer, K. T. Kim, M. Chiang

Preprint arXiv:2410.00695 [cs.DC]

arXiv Edge Computing Automonous Driving Path Planning Computation Offloading Time-critical Communcation

[8]

Utilizing Priors in Sampling-based Cost Minimization

Y.-Y. Lou, J. Spencer, K. T. Kim, M. Chiang

Preprint arXiv:2409.19834 [eess.SY]

arXiv Automonous Driving Model Predictive Control Probability Sampling Optimization Data Collection and Analysis

[7]

Dynamic DAG-Application Scheduling for Multi-Tier Edge Computing in Heterogeneous Networks

X. Li, M. Abdallah, Y.-Y. Lou, M. Chiang, K. T. Kim, S. Bagchi

Preprint arXiv:2409.10839 [cs.NI]

arXiv Edge Computing Distributed Systems Task Scheduling Real Testbed CBRS 4G / 5G Sub-6

[6]

Intelligent Network Edge with Distributed SDN for the Future 6G Network

S. B. Weinstein, Y.-Y. Lou, T. R. Hsing

IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic Systems, 2021

IEEE COMCAS 21' Edge Computing Distributed SDN

[5]

Chapter 13 - Development of Wearable Services with Edge Devices

Y.-Y. Shih, A.-C. Pang, Y.-Y. Lou

Fog and Fogonomics: Challenges and Practices of Fog Computing, Communication, Networking, Strategy, and Economics, 2020

Book Chapter Edge Computing Computation Offloading Wearable Device System Design Android

[4]

Modularized Service Provisioning at Fog Networks

Y.-Y. Shih, A.-C. Pang, Y.-Y. Lou, C.-C. Chuang, L. Zhao, Z. Ren

IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Asia Pacific Wireless Communications Symposium, 2018

IEEE VTS APWCS 18' Edge Computing Computation Offloading Microservice

[3]

Fog-based Virtualization for Low-Latency Wearable Services

Y.-Y. Lou

National Taiwan University Master's Thesis, 2017

NTU Fog-Edge Computing Microservice Offloading Android Wear Testbed Deployment

[2]

A Virtual Local-hub Solution with Function Module Sharing for Wearable Devices

H.-P. Lin, Y.-Y. Shih, A.-C. Pang, Y.-Y. Lou

ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, 2016

ACM MSWiM 16' Edge Computing Function Module Sharing Resource Allocation Greedy / Heuristic

[1]

Internet of Things Session Management Over LTE - Balancing Signal Load, Power, and Delay

X.-L. Wang, M.-J. Sheng, Y.-Y. Lou, Y.-Y. Shih, M. Chiang

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 339–353, June 2016

IEEE IoT-J IoT Session Management Markov Chain RAN 4G LTE

Education

Experience

Mode: All | Research | Software Engineer

Jun. 2025 - Aug. 2025

Meta Platforms NASDAQ: META

Menlo Park, CA, USA

Software Engineer Intern, Systems and Infrastructure (PhD)

AI/ML System Simulation LLM Pre-training Workloads GPU Training Clusters NCCL RDMA / RoCE

Python C++ Thrift (RPC) CI/CD Software Performance Profilers Jupyter Notebooks

Sep. 2024 - Dec. 2024

MediaTek USA

West Lafayette, IN, USA

Research Intern

NextG System Design Integrated Computation and Communication (ICC) Distributed Inference GenAI / LLM

Python SimPy System-Level Simulation 5G NR

Aug. 2021 - Present

Purdue University - EDGE Lab

West Lafayette, IN, USA

Graduate Research Assistant

RAN Architecture Edge Computing Autonomous Driving Computer Vision Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL)

Python Pytorch SimPy System-Level Simulation ns-3 Networked Testbed (4G/5G CBRS, Wi-Fi 6E)

Apr. 2021 - Aug. 2021

IoT Eye

NJ, USA / Taiwan Remote

Full-stack Cloud Developer (Contractor)

Cloud Application DevOps Multi-agency Management Platform Low-code Open-source

Python Javascript AWS Flask Frappe HTML/CSS

Dec. 2020 - Aug. 2021

Independent Researcher

NY, USA / Taiwan Remote

(Collaborator: Prof. Stephen B. Weinstein, Prof. T. Russell Hsing)

Distributed SDN Edge Computing IEEE COMCAS '21 [6] IEEE WF-IoT '21

Dec. 2017 - Apr. 2021

Silicon Motion - Algorithm and Technology R&D Center NASDAQ: SIMO

Milpitas, CA, USA / Taipei, Taiwan

Senior Software Engineer / Supervisor

Software System IC Design Flow TSMC 7/16nm Cross-Functional Team Communication Leadership

CLI Linux Python Perl TCL TSMC Cell Library DRC/LVS/ERC/ESD PrimeTime (Timing ECO) Innovus (P&R)

Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2017

National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan)

Taipei, Taiwan

Graduate Researcher

Wearable Computing Microservice Architecture Wi-Fi P2P ACM MSWiM '16 [2] Book Chapter [5]

C++ Java Android Wear OS WLAN Testbed DHCP NAT Django (telemetry system) CMUSphinx

Jul. 2014 - Mar. 2015

Princeton University - EDGE Lab

Princeton, NJ, USA

Research Intern (Mentor: Prof. Mung Chiang, Dr. Ming-Jye Sheng)

4G LTE RAN RRC/DRX IoT Markov Chain IEEE IoT-J '16 [1]

Java Android App Profiling Python Algorithm Scheduling Parameterization

Teaching

Feb. 2016 - Jan. 2017

National Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan

Teaching Assistant - CSIE 3510 Computer Network / CSIE 5057 Advanced Computer Network

TCP/IP IEEE 802.11, 802.3 Socket Programming Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Chatbot

Python C++ Wireshark