Chip Huyen
Writer on AI system design; former NeMo core developer at NVIDIA and Stanford ML systems instructor
Chip Huyen is a writer and computer scientist who works on bringing AI into production and writes about AI system design. Huyen previously worked on ML tooling at NVIDIA as a core developer of NeMo, also worked at Snorkel AI and Netflix, and founded and sold an AI infrastructure company. At Stanford, Huyen was the instructor for CS 329S, a course on machine learning systems design whose lecture notes became the book Designing Machine Learning Systems (O'Reilly, 2022); Huyen's later book is AI Engineering (2025).12
Work
NVIDIA NeMoOpen-source code
Huyen's homepage describes Huyen as a core developer of NeMo while working on ML tooling at NVIDIA. The NeMo repository is licensed under Apache 2.0.13
Designing Machine Learning Systems (O'Reilly, 2022)Published research
Author of the book, which expanded the lecture notes of the Stanford course CS 329S that Huyen taught.21
AI Engineering (2025)Published research
Author of the 2025 book on AI engineering, listed on Huyen's homepage.1
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- ML tooling; core developer of NeMo, NVIDIA1
- Instructor, CS 329S, Stanford University12
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