Robin Luo
Co-Founder at Northwestern University
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Luo is a PhD candidate and research scientist focused on making foundation models safer, more efficient, and practical for real-world tasks like information extraction and databases. With eight years of experience across academia and industry—including internships at ByteDance, RTX, and Splunk—he publishes and ships methods that cut reasoning cost and improve safety (e.g., latent-space safety alignment with large gains and attention outlier removal yielding 26.7% reasoning accuracy improvements). He co-founded startups in 2026 to push LLM applications beyond research, and his work spans PEFT, quantization-robust multimodal transformers, and hierarchical temporal tokenization for time-series reasoning. Based in San Jose, he combines deep theoretical insights (exposing EOS-induced jailbreaks) with practical engineering in Python and Java to move models from lab to product.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Michigan State University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (113)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
text-to-speech10
deep-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
speech-recognition10
machine-translation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robinzixuan/robinzixuan
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:168 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
robinzixuan/robin.github.io
Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:161 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 3 months
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