Alex Lu
Senior Researcher at Microsoft New England Research and Development Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lu is a Senior Researcher and PhD candidate in computational biology based in Boston, bringing nine years of experience applying machine learning to large-scale biological image data. He specializes in self-supervised learning and develops AI that “teaches itself” to solve biological problems through puzzle-solving and exploratory methods, with a focus on hypothesis discovery at Microsoft New England R&D. His background spans end-to-end bioimage analysis—from wet-lab experience and microscopy to building segmentation and automated marking tools—giving him an unusual fluency across experimental and computational workflows. Alex combines academic rigor from a PhD program at the University of Toronto with industry research impact, regularly bridging novel ML methods and real-world biological datasets.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Western UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at University of Toronto
English, Sign languages, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
starlark9
golang7
visual-recognition3
python3
transfer-learning3
efficientnet3
video-understanding2
machine-learning2
codebase2
pytorch2
change-detection1
localization1
microscopy1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexxijielu/alexxijielu.github.io
Aug 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
alexxijielu/paired_cell_inpainting
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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