Tony Tu
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolTony Tu is a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and an AI Applied Scientist Intern at Zillow, bringing eight years of experience across research and industry in Berkeley and Atlanta. He specializes in generative AI for protein engineering and drug design under Prof. Yunan Luo while also working on LLM post-training and agentic AI at Zillow, bridging cutting-edge ML research with production-focused AI systems. A UC Berkeley EECS alumnus with a background in NLP and extensive undergraduate research across Berkeley labs, he has practical experience in embedded systems, autonomous driving, and fairness in advertising. Tony combines deep academic rigor with hands-on tooling—he’s built autograders and teaching materials for large CS cohorts and contributed to UAV sensing and monocular depth projects—showing a knack for turning complex research into usable software.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Master's degree, Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), Master's degree, Computer Science (Natural Language Processing) at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese, English, French
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Github Skills (27)
depth-estimation9
depth8
neural-machine-translation7
robust6
leaderboard6
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
translation6
computer-vision5
migration5
pytorch5
machine-translation5
machine-learning4
explore4
language-model3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tonytu16/protigeno
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
tonytu16/ics-bootcamp1
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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