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Hongyu Hè

Electical Engineering (G1)
Princeton University
computer networks, machine learning, formal logic


Hongyu Hè \ˈho:nˌu hə\ is a first-year PhD student at Princeton, advised by Prof. Maria Apostolaki. His research sits at the intersection of computer networking, formal logic, and machine learning. Hongyu earned his MSc in Computer Science (CS) from ETH Zürich as one of six Direct Doctoral Scholars in 2024. At ETH, he worked with Prof. Gustavo Alonso in the Systems Group on FPGA research and was an associated researcher at the AI Center. Hongyu previously studied Math and CS in Amsterdam, where he was led into research by Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum and graduated with the ADS Thesis Award. In 2019, he was named a top-10 college student nationwide in CS (Informatica) by the Royal Holland Society. Originally, Hongyu attended law school in China before turning to science and engineering.

Selected Publications (see all)

  1. preprint
    Hongyu Hè, Minhao Jin, Maria Apostolaki
    2025 under review

Industry Experience

Curieo AI
ML Research Fellow (summer 2024)
IBM Research
Geodata Team
Engineering Intern (spring 2024, part-time)
Apple
Visual Intelligence Team, AI/ML
Research Engineer Intern (summer 2023)
Oracle Labs
Serverless Team
Graal Cloud Native Intern (spring 2023, part-time)
Huawei — Amsterdam Research Center
Search Team
R&D Intern (winter 2021)
Picnic Technologies
Store Team
Software Developer (2021, part-time)
Software Engineer Intern (2020)

Contact

For academic inquiries: hhy@g.princeton
For campus activities: hhy@cs.princeton
For perconal matters: hongyuhe.cs@googlemail

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7799 William St
Princeton, NJ 08540



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