{"678055":{"#nid":"678055","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wang Awarded Doctoral Scholarship for AI Infrastructure Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Ph.D. candidate Irene Wang was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Canada Graduate Scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang is pursuing her Ph.D. in computer science, working in Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/divya-mahajan\u0022\u003EDivya Mahajan\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s Infrastructure and Architecture Research Lab in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe was selected for her research on advancing deep learning infrastructure to meet the computational needs to run increasingly complex large language models (LLM). LLMs are a type of computational model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. ChatGPT is a common example of an LLM.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe power of many LLMs have surpassed the computational and memory capabilities of single accelerators. This has made a distributed approach necessary train and execute these models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang\u2019s research proposes a state-of-the-art in-distributed deep learning infrastructure that co-optimizes architecture, network, and device placement strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach of these aspects play a fundamental role in executing distributed deep learning, involving trade-offs in computational efficiency, communication costs, and memory footprint, according to Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal is efficiency, according to Wang.With so many variables and a wide range of outcomes, efficiency is very important to finding the best possible combinations of conditions to run different LLMs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUltimately, my goal is to develop systems that not only make deep learning more resource-efficient but also foster broader access across diverse populations and industries, promoting equitable and sustainable advancements in AI infrastructure design,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENSERC funds visionaries, explorers and innovators who are searching for the scientific and technical breakthroughs that will benefit Canada, according to the Council\u2019s website.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Canada Graduate Scholarship offers three years of financial support to a select group of highly accomplished Canadian graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang received her B.S. in computer engineering from the University of British Columbia.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Ph.D. candidate will pursue research on advancing deep learning infrastructure to meet the computational needs to run ever-evolving large language models.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Ph.D. candidate will pursue research on advancing deep learning infrastructure to meet the computational needs to run ever-evolving large language models."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2024-10-31 18:43:49","changed_gmt":"2024-10-31 18:48:09","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675490":{"id":"675490","type":"image","title":"Irene Award.jpg","body":null,"created":"1730400259","gmt_created":"2024-10-31 18:44:19","changed":"1730400259","gmt_changed":"2024-10-31 18:44:19","alt":"Irene Wang","file":{"fid":"259118","name":"Irene Award.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/31\/Irene%20Award.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/31\/Irene%20Award.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":701180,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/10\/31\/Irene%20Award.jpg?itok=pyHZYQ55"}}},"media_ids":["675490"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"109581","name":"deep learning"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}