Tom Lu
AI Research Lead (Founding Team) at Chai
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Lu is an AI research leader and founding team member at Chai, where he builds a generative AI platform that serves social LLMs to over 10 million users and handles roughly 2 trillion tokens per day with exceptionally high user engagement. With eight years of experience and a First Class MEng from Cambridge, he combines deep research rigor with production engineering—previously leading quantitative research at Seamless Capital, where he scaled models and shortened research-to-production cycles from months to 48 hours. Tom excels at taking cutting-edge generative models into high-throughput, consumer-facing systems and has a track record of hiring and mentoring PhD-level teams to deliver measurable performance gains. Based in Palo Alto, he balances academic grounding and practical product focus, driving both infrastructure scale and user-centric model design.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, First Class Honours, Master of Engineering, First Class Honours at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (16)
attention-mechanism7
architecture5
ensembles5
keras5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
ais4
chai4
python3
chat3
chatbot3
react3
science3
tensorflow3
data-science2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xl402/deep-sets
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
xl402/performer
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Tensorflow implementation of a linear attention architecture
Contributions:6 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
deep-learningattention-mechanismattention-architecturemachine-learninglinear
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