Yaser Afshar
High-Performance AI Engineer @ Intel | PhD | GPU Programming | Scaling Distributed LLMs | Optimizing Simulations for Materials Discovery & Life Sciences
- Role
- Ai Software Solutions Engineer at Intel
- Location
- Hillsboro, OR, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yaser Afshar
PhD in Computer Science | AI Software Engineer @ IntelI optimize high-performance AI systems at Intel, with a focus on scaling large language models and heterogeneous GPU/Accelerator workflows.Current Focus:• Scaling Distributed AI – Driving LLM training/inference performance on Intel Gaudi3 and cross-vendor NVIDIA setups using vLLM + Hugging Face.• Systems Optimization – Enabling GPU Direct RDMA via UCX/NIXL on multi-node, heterogeneous workflows.• Delivering Gains – Achieved 10%-20% reduction in distributed training time for 70B+ models through bottleneck analysis and library tuning.Scientific Foundations: Built on 10+ years in computational research (PhD + postdocs at Max Planck, U. Michigan, U. Minnesota), advancing atomistic simulations (LAMMPS contributions), uncertainty quantification, and materials/biology modeling.Passionate about accelerating scientific discovery with cutting-edge hardware. Let’s connect on HPC, distributed AI, or computational science!
Experience
Ai Software Solutions Engineer
Apr 2024 — Present · US
Education
Isfahan University of Technology
Master of Science (MSc), Mechanical Engineering
2004 — 2007
Technische Universität Dresden
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science
2013 — 2016
K. N. Toosi University of Technology
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering
1998 — 2004
Skills
- Physics
- High Performance Computing
- Cell Culture
- Bioinformatics
- Mathematical Modeling
- Nanotechnology
- Computational Biology
- Science
- Microsoft Office
- Numerical Analysis
- Systems Biology
- Statistics
- Simulations
- Microsoft Excel
- Powerpoint
- Research
- Molecular Dynamics
- Latex
- C++
- Microsoft Word
- Matlab
- Image Analysis
- Customer Service
- Molecular Biology
- High Performance Computing (Hpc)
- C
- Scientific Computing
- Fortran
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