Zicheng Ma

$ ls my_info

Hello there!👋

My name is Zicheng Ma. I am currently a graduate student at Harvard, majoring in Computational Science and Engineering. I graduated with Highest Honor in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Zhejiang University.

This summer (May–Aug 2025), I interned at NVIDIA with the Dynamo team, focusing on building great distributed system for LLM inference. I designed a unified HTTP endpoint for health checks and metrics, and contributed to enabling LMCache in Dynamo’s architecture. This experience deepened my understanding of AI systems, distributed design, and the value of cross-team collaboration.

Previously, I interned at Microsoft DKI group, gaining insights into ML for systems, HPC, and cloud services. I also worked at UIUC x-lab with Xudong Sun on the verifiable controller framework Anvil, which was accepted by OSDI 24.

$ cat interest

My research interest is Distributed System, ML System and AI Infra. I believe that stable and efficient distributed systems are meaningful to the world and distributed system itself will never become an outdated topic.😎

Beside my research interest, I am a deep coffee lover.☕️ Drinking and brewing coffee has become an unattainable part of my life. I love drinking pour-our coffee and prefer light roast coffee with good acidity and cleanliness. Every time I taste those wonderful flavors in coffee, such as jasmine, citrus, strawberry, etc., I feel a sense of happiness.

Whether you are interested in my scientific research or my coffee life, please feel free to contact me, I am looking forward to meeting more like-minded friends.

$ echo $my_honor

I have won three times of National Scholarship, an award bestowed upon only top 0.2% of Chinese university students, which is the highest honor a Chinese student can achieve. Additionally, I was recognized as a Finalist in the United States Mathematical Modeling Competition awarded to just 1% of participating teams worldwide. Beisdes, I have earned either the first-tier scholarships at my university, indicative of my consistent academic excellence and GPA ranking within the top one.