Zhijie Xia

AI Infrastructure Engineer & Researcher

I build AI infrastructure and conduct research in reinforcement learning. Previously at Huawei, Lucid Vision Labs, and the Programmable Reality Lab. MSc student at University of Alberta under Dr. Rupam Mahmood.

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Publications

Wenwu Fan*, Zhijie Xia*, Qihong Lin*, Zhuo Zheng*, Sihao Wang, Qiang Chen, Liangsheng Zhu

TMLR 2026|

Jian Liao, Kevin Van, Zhijie Xia, Ryo Suzuki

DIS 2024||Video

Zhijie Xia*, Kyzyl Monteiro*, Kevin Van, Ryo Suzuki

UIST 2023||Video

Open Source Contributions

VERLvolcengine/verl

Volcano Engine Reinforcement Learning for LLMs — a flexible, efficient, and production-ready RL training framework for large language models.

PR #5756

vllm-ascendvllm-project/vllm-ascend

Ascend NPU backend plugin for vLLM, enabling high-throughput and low-latency LLM inference on Huawei Ascend hardware.

PR #7631