Goes by Steven · he/him

New York, NY

Shuyu Li

Systems-leaning software engineer. I build things end to end — network scanners, API platforms, fine-tuned LLMs — and run most of them on hardware I own.

Computer Science at NYU Tandon · Class of 2027

Minors in Cybersecurity and Game Engineering

Fig. 1The IPv4 internet, as my ping sweep saw it. Every address from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255, folded onto a Hilbert curve. One pixel is a /16 — 65,536 addresses; brightness is the share that answered.

Hover to inspect a block · click to ping it

 

The only solid /8 is 127.0.0.0/8: loopback — the scanning machine answering itself.

 

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Résumé

One page, exactly as it prints

Shuyu (Steven) Li

Computer Science Student at NYU Tandon · New York, NY

Full-stack software developer with 4+ years of AI / Machine Learning development experience (since 2022) focused on AI / Large Language Model (LLM) applications and the production web stack.

Fig. 251 projects, 2020–2026, by the quarter they started.
2020202120222023202420252026PROJECTSWORKSTUDYBank of ChinaNew York UniversityThe High School Affil…
  • Outlined: on this page

Experience

Bank of China

New York, NY

Enterprise Risk Management — Software Engineer Intern

Part-time, continued from full-time internship

Jan – Apr 2026

  • Continued work on the same risk-management tool, moving it from a test environment to live production use by the team.
  • Adjusted the application so it could read and write the bank's existing internal databases instead of the prototype data store.

Full-time

Jul – Aug 2025

  • Built the user-facing screens of an internal tool the bank's risk team uses to record and review enterprise-risk events.
  • Set up the login flow so that only authorized employees can sign in and access the data.
  • Connected the screens to a cloud database so risk officers can add, edit, and view records, with updates appearing live for everyone on the team.

Selected projects

  1. Rewrote the platform in TypeScript (Node.js 24): 26 services as independently deployable plugins on a ~1,200-line deploy-and-rollback runtime built on the Cordis plugin framework.

    Distributed Systems · TypeScript · Microservices · CI/CD

  2. Memoo — Personal Claude-Powered Agent Bot

    2026

    A Generative AI / Multi-Agent personal assistant with persistent memory at half the consolidation cost.

    Multi-Agent · Generative AI · Sandboxed Execution · RAG Memory

  3. A 35B MoE LLM that produces longer, in-style chapter completions and specifically eliminates v1's premature-end-of-sequence bug.

    LLM Fine-Tuning · Mixture-of-Experts · LoRA · Distributed Training

  4. laya-tiny — One Sentence In, a 4 MB Expert Model Out (Knowledge Distillation)

    2026

    On support-ticket triage the student is 211× smaller (4.0 MB) and about 230× faster (0.51 ms on CPU) than its teacher.

    Knowledge Distillation · Transformer · ONNX · Synthetic Data

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51 projects, 2020 to 2026

Most important first. Each row is one line; open it for the problem, the approach, the outcome and the links.

12 of 51

  1. (Project Hail Mary)

    2026

    A self-hosted personal cloud platform that runs my résumé API, blog comments, file storage, a mail inbox, page hosting, an LLM (Large Language Model) gateway and about twenty other services from one 2 GB Linux server behind api.lishuyu.app.

    Systems & networksDistributed SystemsTypeScriptMicroservicesCI/CD

  2. — Personal Claude-Powered Agent Bot

    2026

    A personal AI agent bot built on the Anthropic Claude API tool-use loop, with sandboxed code execution, hybrid retrieval memory, scheduled 'dream cycle' memory consolidation, and multi-channel messaging.

    Applied AI & agentsMulti-AgentGenerative AISandboxed ExecutionRAG Memory

  3. (Co-Authored Research Paper)

    2022

    A peer-reviewed research project from high school exploring whether combining classical signal-processing with a Neural Network would beat either approach alone for short-term temperature forecasting.

    Machine learningTime-Series ForecastingNeural NetworksSignal ProcessingSPIE Paper

  4. — 35B MoE Model (v2)

    2026

    A custom Generative AI / Large Language Model (LLM) Fine-Tuned to write Chinese xianxia / cultivation / fantasy web-novels in genre-appropriate prose, scaled up from my v1 14B model to a 35-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model.

    Machine learningLLM Fine-TuningMixture-of-ExpertsLoRADistributed Training

  5. — One Sentence In, a 4 MB Expert Model Out (Knowledge Distillation)

    2026

    A reproducible knowledge-distillation pipeline that turns a one-sentence goal into a tiny task-specific Transformer.

    Machine learningKnowledge DistillationTransformerONNXSynthetic Data

  6. Kaggle Silver Medal

    2022

    A Computer Vision / Deep Learning project for SIIM-FISABIO-RSNA, a public Kaggle competition with thousands of teams worldwide: identify and localize COVID-19 indicators on chest X-ray radiographs.

    Machine learningMedical ImagingCNNKaggleDeep Learning

  7. (Medical Research)

    2026

    An automated medical-imaging pipeline that outlines brain tumors directly on MRI scans, replacing a manual step that previously took radiologists several minutes per scan and produced slightly different boundaries each time.

    Machine learningMedical ImagingComputer VisionDeep LearningSegmentation

  8. 2026

    A from-scratch operating system for 64-bit RISC-V that boots in QEMU and performs a certificate-verified HTTPS GET to www.google.com, then grew into a small preemptive OS.

    Systems & networksOperating SystemsRISC-VNetworkingC

  9. 2026

    A research surgical-planning pipeline that aligns a patient's pre-operative and post-operative CT scans so a surgeon can confirm a safe entry point on the skull surface for procedures that insert an instrument deep into the brain.

    Machine learningMedical Imaging3D RegistrationComputer VisionSurgical Planning

  10. 2026

    A private, self-hosted Multimodal AI assistant running on a 16 GB Apple Silicon Mac mini at home — accessible to all my devices (laptop, phone, SSH boxes) over a private mesh network — that handles both text and images and exposes an OpenAI-compatible API.

    Applied AI & agentsMultimodal AIVLMSelf-HostedPrivate AI

  11. (Distributed System)

    2023

    A Distributed Systems project that pings every public IPv4 address (~4 billion of them) to map which hosts respond — revealing global network topology, dark-space blocks, and active vs reserved ranges.

    Systems & networksDistributed SystemsNetwork MeasurementICMPIPv4 Sweep

  12. — Rootless Supervisor for Agent-Managed Services

    2026

    A rootless process supervisor that lets an AI agent run and operate the services it declares — without Docker, root or per-service systemd units.

    Systems & networksLinuxcgroups v2Process SupervisionAI Agents