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Leon Lu

Leon Lu

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Computer Scientist | NLP Researcher | Software Engineer | 15-251 TA | CS @ CMU

  • Education

    • Carnegie Mellon University

      2022 - 2025
      Undergraduate B.S. in Computer Science GPA 4.0/4.0

      Activities and Societies: LLab, Flutonium (flute ensemble), IRIS Lunar Rover Dean's List, High Honors (every semester)

    • Nansha College Preparatory Academy

      2018 - 2022
      High School Diploma GPA 4.61/4.61

      Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Tri-M Music Honor Society (Vice President and Music Director), South China Model United Nations (Secretary-General), two drama productions, Tech Solution Team (Manager), Debate Team, Student Government, Wind Ensemble, Choir East Asia Regional Council of Schools 2021 Global Citizenship AwardAdvanced Placements: 5 on 15 APsChina Thinks Big: individual first prize, 2020-2021 global finalistValedictorian

  • Experience

    • Thousand Sunny Technology Ltd.

      Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
      Software Developer

      - Contributed to software development at a startup- Built blockchain testing infrastructure automation system- Developed node control and monitoring dashboard (JavaScript, React, Electron)

    • Computational Biology Department (Carnegie Mellon University)

      Jan 2023 - May 2023
      Research Assistant at Mohimani Lab

      - Developed command line tools with Professor Mohimani's research team to process terabyte-scale genomics and metabolomics data for antibiotics discovery (Rust, 80k lines)- Achieved performance orders of magnitude faster than existing tools- Optimized terabyte-scale tandem mass spectrometry data clustering algorithm- Improved accuracy of MASST+, a fast and memory-efficient mass spectrometry search tool- Publication in Nature Biotechnology: Fast mass spectrometry search and clustering of untargeted metabolomics data Show less

    • Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Language Technologies Institute

      May 2023 - Aug 2023
      Student Researcher (Research Intern) at LLab

      - Pioneering novel neural techniques to improve computational reconstructions of protolanguage word forms with Professor David R. Mortensen- Achieved significant accuracy improvement on protolanguage reconstruction, achieving state-of-the-art (PyTorch, 9k lines research code)- Paper at LREC-COLING 2024 (first author): "Improved Neural Protoform Reconstruction via Reflex Prediction"- Accepted paper at ACL 2024 (first author): "Semisupervised Neural Proto-Language Reconstruction"Supported by CMU's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program Show less

    • Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

      Aug 2023 - May 2024
      Teaching Assistant, 15-150 Principles of Functional Programming

      - Designing and grading homework assignments on functional programming in the Standard ML programming language- Teaching labs to 15+ students and holding weekly office hours to help students understand course content and appreciate functional programming

    • Vertex Inc.

      Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
      Software Development Engineer Intern

    • Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

      Aug 2024 - now
      Teaching Assistant, 15-251 Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

      DeepLearning.AI
      Jun 2021
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    • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

      DeepLearning.AI
      Mar 2021
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Leon Lu
      Dean's List, High Honors Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2024
    • Awarded to Leon Lu
      Honorable Mention, 2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Computing Research Association Dec 2023
    • Awarded to Leon Lu
      National Honor Society - Aug 2020

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Web Developer & Server Manager

      Issued by Nansha College Preparatory Academy on Jan 2019
      Nansha College Preparatory AcademyAssociated with Leon Lu

    • IT Support Specialist at Berkeley Bay Area Writing Project

      Issued by Nansha College Preparatory Academy on Jul 2019
      Nansha College Preparatory AcademyAssociated with Leon Lu