About Me

I'm Siyuan Gong (龚思元).

欢迎来到一个女孩纸的个人主页 (///▽///)

I'm a student in the joint program of Zhejiang University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Computer Engineering, expected to graduate in June 2027. I love research, building cool systems, and occasionally pretending I understand math. ^_^

Feel free to explore — and don't hesitate to reach out! o(≧v≦)o

✨ Wishlist: become a tenured student (yes, a lifetime student) & a full-time daughter (no work, just vibes).

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Computer Engineering
Sept 2023 – Present
Zhejiang University
B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sept 2023 – Present

Awards & Honors

Research

ContextG model diagram
Can Inherent Graph Structure Enhance In-Context Learning?
Yifei Sun, Siyuan Gong, Yuxiang Wan, Zaoshi Wang, Haoyang Zhong, Chunping Wang, Lei CHEN, Yang Yang
Submitted to KDD 2025  ·  Preprint, 2025
One of the most important experiences of my life — it ignited my passion for research and made me rethink my future plans! We propose ContextG, the first framework to introduce graph structures into ICL. By modeling structural relationships among examples and test queries, ContextG enhances LLM reasoning while improving efficiency.
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Projects

RISC-V Operating System Kernel ECE391
Virtual memory, threads, syscalls, ELF loader, and file system in C & assembly on QEMU.
Fall 2025
GPT-2 CUDA Kernel Optimizations ECE408
Warp-level reduction, shared-memory tiling, and split-K parallelism for GPT-2 inference on NVIDIA A40. Achieved 20× speedup over baseline.
Report
Fall 2025
Collaborative Expense Management System CS411
MySQL on GCP with multi-currency support, group budgeting, and SERIALIZABLE transaction debt settlement.
Repo
Fall 2025

Experience

International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM)
An amazing interdisciplinary adventure with Team iZJU-China! Built a CNN for yeast image processing and a differential equation model for gene interactions. Our goal? Making cosmetics cheap and safe — which girl doesn't care about that, especially for skincare ^ω^
Project Website Gold Medal Certificate
Apr – Oct 2024
Mathematical Contest in Modeling (COMAP MCM)
Tackled the unknown with a team of three — modeled sea lamprey populations using Leslie Matrix & Lotka-Volterra. Learned to disagree, persuade, compromise, and deliver. Overall, brilliant! ✨
Report Certificate
Feb 2024

Teaching

Teaching Assistant — ECE 120: Introduction to Computing
ZJU-UIUC Institute  ·  Instructors: Lin Qiu, Zuozhu Liu, Ujjal Bhowmik
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025
Course Assistant — ECE 408: Applied Parallel Programming
UIUC  ·  Instructor: Volodymyr Kindratenko
Jan 2026 – Present

Life

🌍 Places I've Been  · 14 countries
Volunteer Work
Helped elderly patients navigate electronic hospital registration — a small reminder of how much the digital divide still matters. Also tutored a middle school student from Xinjiang Province in physics. It's humbling, perspective-broadening, and makes me genuinely grateful. Let's make a little positive impact. o(≧v≦)o
2023 – 2024
Sports & Reading
Hiking, cycling, running, and swimming are my go-to ways to zone out and daydream. Oh — and I placed 2nd in the women's 800m race at college, which I'm still quietly proud of. 🏃‍♀️ When I'm not moving, I'm reading — I love all kinds of novels. Join me on WeChat Read! 📚

Blog

CSDN Blog
Technical articles & research reflections
My Wiki
Personal knowledge base

Publications

Working hard on it... stay tuned! (⁎⁍̴̛ᴗ⁍̴̛⁎)