Alicia Lu
Graduate Research Assistant
United States
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Top SchoolAlicia Lu is a computational neuroscience researcher and incoming PhD student in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT with eight years of hands-on research experience spanning Harvey Mudd, Janelia Research Campus, and the Picower Institute. She combines a double BS in Physics and Mathematics-Computer Science with lab work in the Funke and Flavell labs, bringing quantitative modeling and experimental rigor to neurotech and systems-level questions in memory and learning. Currently a Graduate Research Assistant at MIT, Alicia bridges algorithmic thinking and wet-lab neuroscience to pursue translational ideas in neurotechnology and entrepreneurship. Notably, her background blends deep computational skills with sustained summer research at HHMI’s Janelia, signaling an ability to move projects from theoretical design to experimental implementation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Double Major: Physics & Mathematics-Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Double Major: Physics & Mathematics-Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
medical2
image-registration2
python2
machine-learning1
densenet1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kunyanglu/kunyanglu.github.io
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
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kunyanglu/DNMFX
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:32 pushes in 2 months
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