Ao Shen 申奥

Biography

I’m a research engineer working in OpenAGI Foundation. I also part-time contribute to VeRL and SGLang. I obtained my bachelor’s degree at Purdue University in 2025. During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate to be supervised by Yuke Wang at Rice University and Mingyu Gao at Tsinghua University.

News

• Aug 2025: Proposed FlexLink, a communication optimization work that dynamically aggregates multiple links (NVLink, PCIe, RDMA) to boost the throughput of communication operators (e.g., AllReduce, AllGather) by up to 27% on H800 clusters.
• May 2025: Joined Ant Group(RL Infrastructure) as a research intern.
• May 2025: Proposed Soft Thinking, an efficient reasoning method built on SGLang.

Misc

• Working out.
• Cooking.
• Stock trading (primarily non-ferrous metals).