Steering Committee

The steering committee guides roadmap direction, project scope, and cross-community alignment for vLLM Semantic Router.

Xunzhuo Liu

Steering Committee

LLM Routing @ vLLM

LLM routing builder at vLLM.

LLM routing
Kubernetes AI Gateway
Open-source infrastructure

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Bowei He

Steering Committee

Postdoc @ MBZUAI / McGill

PhD from CityUHK and former Hunyuan LLM under the Qingyun Talent program.

Academic research
LLM systems
Tencent Hunyuan LLM

LinkedIn Google Scholar

Yankai Chen

Steering Committee

Postdoctoral Associate @ McGill University / MBZUAI

Research spanning agentic AI, human-centered AI, and knowledge mining.

Agentic AI
Human-centered AI
Knowledge mining

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Fuyuan Lyu

Steering Committee

PhD Candidate @ McGill University / Mila

Research in data-centric AI, automatic feature selection, and automatic labeling for deep learning and foundation models.

Data-centric AI
Automatic feature selection
Automatic labeling

LinkedIn Website Google Scholar

Huamin Chen

Steering Committee

@Microsoft

Long-term incubator of frontier infrastructure and AI systems across cloud-native platforms, open-source ecosystems, and model-serving stacks.

Cloud-native platforms
Model-serving stacks
Open-source ecosystems

GitHub LinkedIn Hugging Face

Steve Liu

Steering Committee

@MBZUAI / McGill / Mila

Fellow CAE & IEEE; Associate VPR @ MBZUAI; Prof @ McGill; Mila; ex-VP R&D @ Samsung AI; Chair ACM SIGBED.

AI and machine learning
Intelligent systems
Cyber-physical systems

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Committers

Committers own implementation areas, review changes, answer community questions, and keep the project healthy across releases.

FAUST

Committer

Cloud-native Open Source Contributor @Tongji University

Cloud-native open source contributor across Karmada and Volcano.

GitHub

David Shrader

Committer

GTM Tech Lead @Google

GTM Tech Lead at Google.

GitHub LinkedIn Website

yangw

Committer

Cloud-native Engineer @DaoCloud

DaoCloud engineer and open-source contributor focused on practical infrastructure improvements.

GitHub

Ramakrishnan Sathyavageeswaran

Committer

Computer Science Engineer @Intuit

Computer science engineer at Intuit focused on software systems.

GitHub Website

WUKUNTAI

Committer

Software Engineer @DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.

Software engineer at Delta Electronics in Taiwan.

GitHub

Aayush Saini

Committer

SDE, Data and AI @Red Hat

SDE in Red Hat Data and AI, GSoC 2025 participant, and AsyncAPI Steering Committee member.

GitHub

siloteemu

Committer

Open Source Contributor

Open-source contributor on GitHub.

GitHub

Chen Wang

Committer

Senior Staff Research Scientist @IBM

Senior Staff Research Scientist at IBM, focusing on advanced AI systems and research.

GitHub LinkedIn

Yue Zhu

Committer

Staff Research Scientist @IBM

Staff Research Scientist at IBM, specializing in AI research and LLM Inference.

GitHub LinkedIn

Senan Zedan

Committer

R&D Manager @Red Hat

A dynamic and hands-on Engineering Manager who thrives on building elite engineering teams and driving them to deliver exceptional results.

GitHub LinkedIn

Yossi Ovadia

Committer

Senior Principal Engineer @Red Hat

Making life easier for developers and customers through innovative tooling. From the Red Hat Office of the CTO.

GitHub LinkedIn

samzong

Committer

AI Infrastructure / Cloud-Native PM @DaoCloud

Cloud-native AI infrastructure product leader. Focused on Kubernetes, GPU resource scheduling, and large-scale LLM serving platforms.

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Liav Weiss

Committer

Software Engineer @Red Hat

Software engineer, focused on backend and cloud-native systems, with hands-on experience exploring AI infrastructure, LLM-based systems, and RAG architectures.

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Asaad Balum

Committer

Senior Software Engineer @Red Hat

Senior software engineer with a research-driven mindset, specializing in cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and AI enablement.

GitHub LinkedIn

Yehudit

Committer

Software Engineer @Red Hat

Software engineer with a research-driven mindset, focused on cloud-native platforms and AI infrastructure. Open-source contributor.

GitHub LinkedIn

Noa Limoy

Committer

Software Engineer @Red Hat

Software engineer with a research-driven mindset, focused on cloud-native platforms and AI infrastructure. Open-source contributor.

GitHub LinkedIn

Marina Koushnir

Committer

Open Source Contributor @Red Hat

Open source contributor to vLLM Semantic Router.

GitHub

JaredforReal

Committer

Software Engineer @Z.ai

Open source contributor to vLLM Semantic Router.

GitHub

Abdallah Samara

Committer

Senior Software Engineer @Red Hat

Software engineer with a research-driven approach, focused on cloud-native platforms and AI infrastructure. Building semantic routing systems and contributing to open-source LLM orchestration projects.

GitHub LinkedIn

Hen Schwartz

Committer

Software Engineer @Red Hat

GitHub LinkedIn

Srinivas A

Committer

Software Engineer @Yokogawa

Application software engineer with experience in Distributed Control Systems and Big data.

GitHub LinkedIn

carlory

Committer

Open Source Engineer @DaoCloud

Open Source Engineer at DaoCloud, focusing on container technology and cloud-native solutions. Passionate about contributing to vllm and other open source projects.

GitHub