Yuxuan (Leo) Lu is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Northeastern University and an applied scientist intern with multiple stints at Amazon, bringing eight years of hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning models. His research-oriented background includes a joint internship between LinkedIn and Microsoft Research Asia and work at Tsinghua’s THUNLP lab, where he focused on applied NLP and productionizing ML using real-world LinkedIn data. Based in Palo Alto, he blends academic rigor with industry-scale engineering, moving ideas from prototypes to customer-facing systems. Notably, his trajectory shows a pattern of repeat internships at top tech labs, signaling both deep domain expertise and strong collaborator reputation across academia and industry.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Beijing University of Technology
Contributions:9 reviews, 18 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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