Hongyu Hè \ˈho:nˌu hə\ is a second-year PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Princeton, advised by Prof. Maria Apostolaki. He is a NAM Fellow in AI and UA Fellow in Computer Science (CS). His research sits at the intersection of computer networking, formal logic, and machine learning. Hongyu earned his MSc in 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)

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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