FDE Tom Yim · ICML 2026 Top 10 · HKMAC 社群

Building systems that
verify before they claim.

Founder of HKMAC community · Host of free workshop AI 使用力升級 · Open-source program Sophia — the Wisdom Gate.

  • ICML 2026 Top 10
  • HK Community
  • Local AI
  • Sophia AGI
  • Open Source
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Systems discipline, AI research focus

FDE Tom Yim

FDE Tom Yim · ICML 2026 Top 10 · Founder, HKMAC 社群

AI researcher with an electrical engineering foundation and multi-year systems engineering practice. I apply structured validation, conflict detection, and standards-driven review to large language model evaluation and training/inference infrastructure.

In Hong Kong I host the free community workshop AI 使用力升級 (first session 12 Sep 2026, Kwun Tong) — open group sessions, no time limit, phone or notebook only.

The open-source program Sophia — the Wisdom Gate builds a fail-closed provenance gate for LLMs: claim → verify → accept / abstain / block. Scope is honest: AGI-candidate research with measured claims only—not proven AGI.

Community
HKMAC · Free workshop · Local AI · Open collaboration
Research
Provenance-aware reasoning · Verifier-gated abstention · ICML 2026 Top 10
Languages
English · Cantonese · Mandarin

Selected work

Research & infrastructure

AI 使用力升級 · Workshop

Free Hong Kong community open house: Vibe Coding, 1:1 consult, Local AI Clinic, Show & Tell. First session 12 Sep 2026 · Kwun Tong · phone or notebook only.

Community · Free · Open in/out

LLM training / inference infra

LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning pipelines, vLLM/Ollama/MLX serving paths, flash-attention reference kernels, RLVR/GRPO experiments, CI-gated eval harnesses.

PyTorch · HuggingFace · PEFT · vLLM · TRL

Systems validation mindset

Cross-discipline model QA, structured data coordination, and automation for technical review—applied as the engineering bridge into verifier-style AI gates.

Validation · Automation · Reproducibility

Skills

Stack & methods

Programming & ML

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • HuggingFace Transformers
  • LLM Fine-tuning · PEFT/LoRA
  • Model Evaluation

Research & Evaluation

  • AI Benchmarking
  • Attribution Verification
  • RAG Pipelines
  • Statistical Calibration
  • Bilingual NLP (EN/ZH)

Tools & Infrastructure

  • vLLM · Ollama · MLX
  • Git · CI/CD
  • MCP Servers
  • Docker
  • Reproducible Experiment Tracking

Systems engineering

  • Structured data coordination
  • Model QA · conflict detection
  • Python automation
  • Technical documentation
  • Standards-driven review