Yadong Lu
Researcher at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolYadong Lu is a researcher based in the Greater Seattle area with three years of hands-on experience fine-tuning and customizing large language and diffusion models at Microsoft. With a Ph.D. in Statistics from UC Irvine and an applied mathematics background from National University of Singapore and Sichuan University, he blends rigorous theory with practical model engineering. His work focuses on efficient pre- and post-training techniques for vision and language models, building on prior internships developing neural network compression and variable bit-rate image compression at Qualcomm. Earlier experience applying NLP to automate legal document processing shows his ability to translate research into applied systems. Colleagues can expect a data-driven problem solver who bridges statistical foundations and scalable ML workflows.
3 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at Sichuan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at University of California, IrvineApplied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (17)
ai6
chatgpt6
autogen5
benchmark5
multimodal4
code-generation4
agent4
natural-language-processing4
cli4
reinforcement-learning3
artificial-intelligence3
agentic3
llm2
large-language-models2
language-model2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/OmniParser
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
A simple screen parsing tool towards pure vision based GUI agent
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 9 PRs in 5 months
yadong-lu/pytorch-fid-customized
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Compute FID scores with PyTorch, with customizable option for image sizes etc.
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 days
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