Welcome
I’m Hongyu Su, a Ph.D in Machine Learning from Aalto University, data scientist building ML systems in production, researcher in optimization and structured prediction, publishing papers, engineer and nerdy vim user, licensed scuba diver (AOW + Nitrox), snowboarder, cat person, hiker, and photographer.
Find more about my research, writing, and code.
Academia
Ph.D in Machine Learning from Aalto University. PostDoc at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and Aalto. Research focus: optimization, structured output prediction, kernel methods, and large-scale learning.
Technical Blog
I write about machine learning, data science, data engineering, and software development. Recent posts:
- Claude Code + MCP: AI Development with Bedrock 23 Aug 2025
- Provision AWS EC2 cluster with Spark version 2.x 24 Sep 2017
- Streaming with Apache Storm 12 Mar 2017
- Streaming processing (III): Best Spark Practice 26 Feb 2017
- Streaming processing (II): Best Kafka Practice 25 Feb 2017
- Deep Sentiment Prediction as Web Service 25 Dec 2016