Yuzhou Nie
Research Scientist at Virtue AI
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuzhou Nie is a research scientist and second-year Computer Science PhD student at UC Santa Barbara who focuses on agent security and applying AI to cybersecurity. With five years of industry experience including internships at Microsoft and AWS and a current role on the founding team at Virtue AI, he blends rigorous research with product-minded development. His background includes top academic performance from Renmin University and ongoing doctoral work, reflecting deep technical grounding and a 4.0 record at Purdue’s PhD program. Notably, he moves between theory and applied settings—translating security research into practical defenses for AI agents within startup and cloud-scale environments.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Data Science, 3.84 (3/52), Bachelor’s Degree, Data Science, 3.84 (3/52) at 中国人民大学Doctor's Degree, Computer Science, Doctor's Degree, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0 at Purdue University
Github Skills (51)
cuda10
pytorch9
amd9
llm9
inference9
addon9
gpt9
compression9
transformer9
rmarkdown8
proximal-policy-optimization8
obsidian8
mlops8
plugin8
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rucnyz/Database-back-end
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:102 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rucnyz/rucnyz.github.io
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:63 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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