Yuchen Lu
Senior Research Scientist, GenAI & Integrity at HiOTTO
Montreal, Quebec, United States
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Top SchoolYuchen Lu is a Senior Research Scientist specializing in generative AI and integrity at Meta, bringing a decade of deep learning and applied research experience across industry and startups. He holds advanced degrees from Université de Montréal and a strong engineering foundation from UIUC and SJTU, and has focused on multimodal pretraining, retrieval-augmented models, and language-generation evaluation. Yuchen co-founded AI consultancies that help enterprises and the tourism and medical sectors adopt generative models, demonstrating an ability to translate research into product impact. His work spans building models for recommendation and safety at scale and hands-on model deployment with frameworks like DeepSpeed. A MILA-affiliated researcher, he combines rigorous academic training with practical engineering to drive real-world GenAI solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université de MontréalBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, 3.89/4.00, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, 3.89/4.00 at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignElectrical and Computer Engineering, 3.81/4.00, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.81/4.00 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (168)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
vpn-client10
acceleration10
numpy10
ml10
api10
neural-network10
transformer10
nlp10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JACKHAHA363/translation_game_drift
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:100 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
JACKHAHA363/VAE
Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
Exploiting interesting stuff in VAE.....
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
vaeexploitinginteresting
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