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Ph.D. Student · National University of Singapore

Junyi Shen (沈骏一)

Hey, I'm Junyi Shen, a PhD student at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore since 2024, advised by Prof. Yao Lu in the Scalable AI Lab. I received my B.E. degree from Zhejiang University with honors from Chu Kochen Honors College.

My research focuses on LLM systems, agentic workflows, and inference optimization. Outside academia, I enjoy anime, manga, video games, travel, and photography.

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Recent News

Earlier news
  • I gave a talk at MLSys Singapore.
  • FlowMesh was released on arXiv.
  • Halo was released on arXiv.
  • SpecBranch was released on arXiv.
  • I started my PhD at NUS.

Education

National University of Singapore logo National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2024 - Present
President Graduate Fellowship (PGF)
Advisor: Yao Lu
GPA: 4.75/5.0
Selected Courses
  • CS5239: Computer System Performance Analysis
  • CS6206: Advanced Topics in Human-Computer Interaction
  • CS6216: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning
  • CS6222: Advanced Topics in Computational Biology
  • CS6223: Advanced Topics in Software Testing
  • CS6240: Multimedia Analysis
Zhejiang University logo Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Bachelor of Engineering in Automation, 2020 - 2024
Minor in Intensive Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Chu Kochen Honors College
National Scholarship (awarded by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China)
Advisor: Shibo He
GPA: 3.98/4.00, Rank: 3/122

Publications

Helium system overview

Efficient LLM Serving for Agentic Workflows: A Data Systems Perspective

Noppanat Wadlom, Junyi Shen, Yao Lu

SIGMOD 2026 (accepted)

A workflow-aware serving framework that models agentic workloads as query plans and treats LLM invocations as first-class operators.

Double speculative parallelism overview

Double: Breaking the Acceleration Limit via Double Retrieval Speculative Parallelism

Yuhao Shen, Tianyu Liu, Junyi Shen, Jinyang Wu, Quan Kong, Huan Li, Cong Wang

ACL 2026 (Oral, Best Paper Candidate, SAC Highlight)

A training-free speculative decoding method that breaks the speedup limit of parallel decoding via double retrieval.

ACL 2026 SAC Highlight. Click to enlarge.
FlowMesh service fabric overview

FlowMesh: A Service Fabric for Composable LLM Workflows

Junyi Shen, Noppanat Wadlom, Lingfeng Zhou, Dequan Wang, Xu Miao, Lei Fang, Yao Lu

arXiv preprint

A multi-tenant service fabric that executes and optimizes these workloads as one shared service instead of isolated pipelines.

Halo workflow optimization overview

Halo: Batch Query Processing and Optimization for Agentic Workflows

Junyi Shen, Noppanat Wadlom, Yao Lu

arXiv preprint (Submitted to The VLDB Journal)

A system that brings batch query processing and optimization into agentic LLM workflows.

SpecBranch speculative decoding overview

SpecBranch: Speculative Decoding via Hybrid Drafting and Rollback-Aware Branch Parallelism

Yuhao Shen*, Junyi Shen*, Quan Kong, Tianyu Liu, Yao Lu, Cong Wang

ICLR 2026 (Poster)

A comprehensive pipeline to accelerate speculative decoding via a hybrid parallelism method.

* Equal contribution.

Research Experience

Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute logo Research Intern, Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
Nov. 2023 - May 2024
Advisor: Huanchen Zhang, Yao Lu
Shanghai, China
The University of Hong Kong logo Student Research Assistant, The University of Hong Kong
Jul. 2023 - Aug. 2023
Advisor: Hengshuang Zhao
Hong Kong SAR, China

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, NUS
CS6216: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning, 2025–2026 SEM1

Teaching Assistant, NUS
CS4262/5462: Machine Learning Systems, 2025–2026 SEM2

Talks

MLSys Singapore Meetup #17, Singapore
Batch Query Processing and Optimization for Agentic Workflows
National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, 6 Nov. 2025
Webpage

ACL 2026 SAC Highlight

ACL 2026 SAC Highlight certificate for Double