Yike (Eric) Tan
Affiliations. Carnegie Mellon University
yiketn@gmail.com
Pittsburgh, PA
Hi, I’m Yike (Eric) Tan, recently graduated with a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. I bridge machine learning research and production systems, combining expertise in LLM infrastructure, distributed systems, and high-performance computing.
My work spans the full stack of AI engineering—from training and optimizing large-scale models to architecting scalable inference services. I’ve built production ML systems processing TB-scale datasets, deployed real-time applications serving 1000+ concurrent users, and contributed to open-source tools used by thousands of developers worldwide.
As a core contributor to Self-LLM (27.9k+ GitHub stars, featured in Google I/O Connect China 2024), I’ve helped democratize LLM deployment. My technical depth ranges from custom CUDA kernels for GPU optimization to distributed ETL pipelines and microservices architectures. I’ve published research at IEEE ICASSP 2024 and collaborate with researchers at CMU HCI and Tsinghua AIR.
Feel free to check out my publications, GitHub, or connect on LinkedIn.
news
| Aug 15, 2025 | 🎮 Launched ImaginAItion, a real-time multiplayer AI literacy game for CMU HCI with <150ms latency for 50+ concurrent players.  |
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| Jul 15, 2025 | 💼 Successfully completed Software Engineer Internship at Instance Creator LLC! |
| Jul 01, 2025 | 🚀 Started exciting research collaborations with Jiangtao Gong from Tsinghua AIR and Sherry Tongshuang Wu from CMU HCI, exploring cutting-edge AI and human-computer interaction applications. |
| May 14, 2024 | 🎉 Our Self-LLM project was featured in the keynote presentation at Google I/O Connect China 2024! This recognition highlights our contribution to the open-source LLM community with 23.2K+ GitHub stars. |