Yuzhou Nie
Research Scientist at Meta
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.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree, Computer Science, Doctor's Degree, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor’s Degree, Statistics, Bachelor’s Degree, Statistics at Renmin University of China
Github Skills (81)
diffusion-models10
tinker10
diffusers10
post-training10
large-language-models10
sequence-modeling10
gpt9
pytorch9
llm9
inference9
openai9
addon9
amd9
llama9
natural-language-processing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rucnyz/Database-back-end
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:102 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rucnyz/flash-linear-attention
Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
Efficient implementations of state-of-the-art linear attention models in Pytorch and Triton
Contributions:57 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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