Meng Du is an AI research scientist and entrepreneur with nine years of experience at the intersection of multimodal transformer research and cognitive neuroscience. Based in Los Angeles, she combines a PhD in computational cognition from UCLA with hands-on industry work at Intel and a co-founder role at NaoDao.com, bridging rigorous fMRI-based studies of social and domain-general cognition with scalable model development. Her background spans academic research across top labs (Princeton, Michigan) and production-focused AI internships, enabling fluency in both interpretability methods and applied systems. Colleagues describe her approach as curious and cross-disciplinary—she leverages neuroscience priors to inform model architectures and interpretability, a perspective that often yields more cognitively grounded AI insights.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at Beijing Normal University
Bachelor of Science (BS) Double major in Computer Science and BCN (Biopsychology Cognition & Neuroscience), Bachelor of Science (BS) Double major in Computer Science and BCN (Biopsychology Cognition & Neuroscience) at University of Michigan
Contributions:34 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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Meng Du - AI Research Scientist at Intel Corporation