Xikai Meng

Xikai Meng 孟西恺

M.Eng. in Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle · Intern at NVIDIA

ML Systems / AI Infra experience across NVIDIA, AMD, SenseTime and Baichuan AI. Interested in LLM inference, speculative decoding, quantization and heterogeneous computing.

Publications

  1. X. Meng et al. "SD-HC: Speculative Decoding on a Heterogeneous Computing System." MLSys 2026, Young Professionals Symposium (YPS) Program.
  2. X. Meng et al. "Breaking the Draft Barrier." EMNLP 2026.
  3. Baichuan AI authors incl. X. Meng et al. "Clover: Regressive Lightweight Speculative Decoding with Sequential Knowledge." arXiv, 2024. [PDF] [Code]
  4. X. Meng et al. "EAGLE-3 Speculative Decoding on AMD Instinct GPUs." AMD ROCm Tech Blog. [Blog]

Experience

Jun 2026 – Present

Deep Learning Software Engineer Intern, NVIDIA

Santa Clara · GPU kernel optimization, TensorRT

Sep 2025 – Dec 2026

M.Eng. in Computer Engineering, University of Washington

Seattle · ML systems, LLM inference

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

Software Engineer, Model Compression Team, AMD

Beijing · Quantization, Quark Model Optimizer

Jun 2024 – Sep 2024

Software Engineer Intern, SenseTime

Beijing · HPC / AI systems, OpenPPL, CUDA operators

Sep 2023 – Mar 2024

Software Engineer Intern, Baichuan AI

Beijing · LLM inference infrastructure, speculative decoding

Sep 2020 – Jun 2024

B.S. in Applied Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology

Honors School

Projects

Distributed Runtime and Automated Optimization for Multimodal Serving

UW SyFI Lab, May 2026 – present. Multimodal serving runtime; automated optimization of quantization and speculative decoding.

SD-HC: Speculative Decoding on a Heterogeneous Computing System

AMD, Feb 2025 – Aug 2025. CPU + NPU + GPU heterogeneous inference.

EAGLE-3 Quantization on a Speculative-Decoding Framework

SGLang × University of Waterloo, Aug 2025 – Feb 2026. Quantization for speculative decoding.

Open Source

VibeServe · SGLang · M* · SpecForge · EAGLE · Quark · OpenPPL · Clover

Blog

Hello, World

2026-10-29 · First post.

Contact