Yuchen Jin
Yuchen Jin is a researcher and engineer in machine learning systems who in 2022 co-founded the GPU compute platform Hyperbolic with Jasper Zhang and served as its chief technology officer; he previously worked as a senior engineering manager at OctoML and earned a PhD in computer science at the University of Washington.
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2015Graduates from Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Yuchen Jin received his bachelor’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2015 and went on to pursue a PhD in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Arvind Krishnamurthy in the Systems Lab; his research interests include machine learning systems, AutoML, computer networks, and distributed systems.[1][1][1]
2017–2020Internships and Papers During His PhD
During his PhD he interned at MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft is a technology company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, with businesses spanning Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, gaming and devices.Open the full entry Research in Redmond, Washington, from June to September 2017, at ByteDance AI Lab in Bellevue, Washington, from October 2018 to March 2019, and again at Microsoft Research from June to September 2020.[1][1][1]
His first-author papers include ProbLink, on inferring autonomous system (AS) relationships (NSDI 2019); a study of wide-area latencies to a global cloud provider (SIGCOMM 2019); and AutoLRS, which automatically schedules learning rates during training using Bayesian optimization (ICLR 2021). He also co-authored the SOSP 2019 paper on Nexus, a GPU cluster engine for video analysis.[1][1][1][1]
2022Co-Founds Hyperbolic
In 2022, he and math PhD Jasper Zhang co-founded Hyperbolic, a San Francisco-based AI compute platform, after many of their friends were unable to obtain enough GPUs to run their models; Zhang is chief executive and Jin chief technology officer. Hyperbolic buys unused GPU time from data centers and individual machines and sells it to developers, and also helps developers access open-source large language models such as MetaMetaMeta (Meta Platforms, Inc.) is a publicly listed American technology company, renamed from Facebook in 2021, that operates social communication, digital advertising, virtual reality, smart glasses and artificial intelligence businesses.Open the full entry’s Llama.[2][2][2][3][3]
Explaining the motivation, Jin said that understanding the scale of underutilized GPUs was a “eureka moment”: if AI models could run on consumer-grade hardware in a way that is both performant and affordable, the supply of compute available to developers and researchers worldwide could increase significantly. Hyperbolic’s founding story notes that there are more than two billion personal computers in the world, most of which sit idle for more than 19 hours a day.[3][3][3]
December 2024Hyperbolic Raises a Series A
Hyperbolic raised a $12 million Series A round led by Polychain Capital and Variant, bringing its total funding to $20 million. According to Hyperbolic, Hugging Face, QuoraQuoraQuora is an American question-and-answer and knowledge-sharing website and the company that operates it, Quora, Inc., whose core product centers on users asking, answering, and voting to rank content; since 2022, the company has also offered Poe, a chat platform that aggregates AI models from multiple companies.Open the full entry, Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is a private research university in Ithaca, New York, and a member of the Ivy League. It is New York State's federal land-grant university, a distinction unique within the Ivy League. Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White founded the university in 1865, and it opened in 1868. In addition to its Ithaca campus, Cornell operates Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Tech in New York City and a medical college in Qatar. It enrolled 26,793 students in fall 2024. Its president is Michael I. Kotlikoff.Open the full entry, UC Berkeley, and others were already using its services.[2][2]
OctoML and Apache TVM
He worked as a senior engineering manager and tech lead at the machine learning deployment company OctoML and was involved with the open-source deep learning compiler Apache TVM; he co-authored the ASPLOS 2025 paper Relax (composable abstractions for end-to-end dynamic machine learning), whose code was merged into Apache TVM. By his own account, OctoML later operated as OctoAI and was acquired by Nvidia.[1][4][1][1]
Recent Activities and the Muon Optimizer
Jin is one of the credited authors of the write-up on Muon, an optimizer for hidden layers in neural networks (with Keller Jordan as first author). As of October 2026, he describes himself on X as building AI systems and products at Databricks and lists co-founder and CTO of Hyperbolic as a previous role.[1][4]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Personal website: https://yuchenjin.github.io/ (opens in a new window)[4]
X: Public account: https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW (opens in a new window)[1]
LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuchen-jin-11b329a1/ (opens in a new window)[1]
Hyperbolic: Official website: https://hyperbolic.ai/ (opens in a new window).[3]