Portrait of Junyi Zhang

Junyi Zhang

Ph.D. Student

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

About Me

Hi there 👋, I’m Junyi Zhang, a Ph.D. student in School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). I’m supervised by Prof. Xiong Wang. Previously, I obtained my bachelor’s degree from School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning Systems: efficient and low-cost model training and inference systems, mixture-of-experts model optimization

Recent News

  • [Apr. 2025]: PopFetcher accepted to USENIX ATC ’25 (CCF-A, acceptance rate: 100/634=15.8%).

Education

Internship

  • Research Intern, Tencent Hunyuan (Qingyun Talent), Apr. 2026 - Sept. 2026

Publications

* indicates equal contribution; † indicates corresponding authors.

  1. PopFetcher architecture and expert prefetching workflowUSENIX ATC 2025

    PopFetcher: Towards Accelerated Mixture-of-Experts Training Via Popularity Based Expert-Wise Prefetch

    Junyi Zhang, Chuanhu Ma, Xiong Wang †, Yuntao Nie, Yuqing Li, Yuedong Xu, Xiaofei Liao, Bo Li, Hai Jin

    USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), 2025.

Selected Honors

  • National Scholarship, China, 2025
  • Tencent Scholarship, HUST, 2025
  • First-class Scholarship for Postgraduates, HUST, 2024 - 2025
  • Honored Graduates of HUST, 2024