Litu Ou
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLitu Ou is a PhD student in NLP at the University of Edinburgh with six years of hands-on experience bridging research and engineering in natural language understanding, generation, and large language model evaluation. He has contributed to state-of-the-art web agents and agentic RL during a research internship at Tongyi Deep Research Lab, including a paper on measuring and leveraging LLM confidence to boost search-agent performance. At Edinburgh he supported research under Prof. Mirella Lapata and mentored junior projects while tutoring core CS courses, demonstrating a strong commitment to teaching and reproducible research. Industry experience at ByteDance involved full-stack engineering for creative advertising platforms and building a machine learning platform, showing he can move models into production. Litu combines academic rigor with applied impact, often focusing on generalization from synthetic QA to real-world tasks and long-horizon context engineering for complex problem solving.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Artificial Intellignece and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Artificial Intellignece and Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
english toefl: 117 gre: 329+4, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (47)
agent10
lora10
quantization10
nlp10
converter9
translation9
peft9
transformers9
pytorch9
llm9
python9
similarity9
large-language-models9
machine-learning9
llama9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Leonard907/Leonard907.github.io
May 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
Leonard907/scrolls_longt5_memory
Jun 2022 - May 2023
The official code of "SCROLLS: Standardized CompaRison Over Long Language Sequences".
Contributions:118 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
nlpsequencecomparisonsimilarityscrolls
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