About me

I am a first-year direct PhD student at ETH Zurich, working with Prof. Adrian Perrig on the SCION network. I am currently completing the associated Master’s degree, with coursework spanning security, AI, and systems. I recently finished a small project on multipath video streaming, which was presented as a poster at CoNEXT 2025.

Before joining ETH Zurich, I completed a six-month research internship at the University of Chicago with Prof. Junchen Jiang, where I focused on KV cache optimization for LLM inference. I am an early developer of the LMCache project (GitHub 6k+ stars).

I received my B.Eng. in Automation from Zhejiang University, where I ranked first among 113 students in the “Mixed Class” honors program. I worked with Prof. Yuanchao Shu on bridging the gap between increasingly large AI models and resource-constrained mobile devices. I was awarded a ¥100,000 undergraduate research grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and contributed to the Confidant project, a collaborative LLM fine-tuning framework presented at MobiCom 2025.

I am actively looking for collaborations and internship opportunities in networking for AI. Feel free to contact me at yuyqin@student.ethz.ch