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Hongyu Hè

PhD student (since 2024)
Electrical Engineering

Princeton University
computer networks, machine learning, formal logic



Hongyu Hè \ˈho:nˌu hə\ is a second-year PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Princeton, advised by Prof. Maria Apostolaki. At Princeton, He is a NAM Fellow’25 in AI and UAF Fellow’24 in 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. Andy Tanenbaum and graduated with the ADS Thesis Award. In 2019, he was named a national top-10 college student in CS (Informatica) by the Royal Holland Society. Originally, Hongyu attended law school in China before turning to science and engineering.


Selected Publications (full list)

  1. NSDI
    Hongyu Hè, Minhao Jin, Maria Apostolaki
    2026 USENIX NSDI (to appear)
  1. HotNets
    Hongyu Hè, Maria Apostolaki
    2025 ACM HotNets

Industry Experience

Microsoft
Research Intern — summer 2026
Curieo AI (sold)
ML Research Fellow — summer 2024
IBM Zürich Lab
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 Nederland
Search Team
R&D Intern — winter 2021
Picnic Technologies
Store Team
Software Developer — 2021, part-time
Software Engineer Intern — summer 2020

Contact

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

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7799 William St
Princeton, NJ 08540



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