Presenter

Jinghan Yao is a graduate research associate at The Ohio State University, specializing in high performance computing (HPC) and large-scale communication optimization for AI training and inference. His research develops efficient communication runtimes and libraries aimed at accelerating foundation model workloads. Jinghan has published papers at leading conferences including MLSys, IPDPS, and NeurIPS, and has presented his work at NVIDIA GTC 2024 and 2025. He collaborates closely with industry research teams such as Microsoft DeepSpeed to advance scalable communication techniques for AI.