Recruit
I am always interested in recruiting self-motivated and bold students to join my group as (online or offline) interns, as of 2026-01. A funny description is at xhs.
Current Members

I feel honored to be able to work, and grow together, with young students having unlimited talent.

Interns

  • Chuanhao Yan | LLMs, Mechanistic Analysis | PhD at Tsinghua U.
  • Xuhan Huang | LLMs, Mechanistic Analysis | Undergrad at CUHK (SZ)
  • Hongcheng Gao | LLMs, Mechanistic Analysis | PhD at Tsinghua U.
  • Zhaoliang Chen | Reasoning | Undergrad at Emory U.
  • Yizhi Li | LLMs | PhD at Manchester U.
  • Junqi Zhang | Meta Learning | Master at Peking U.
Alumni (them as interns, me as advisor)

These are excellent students who I advised and worked with when I worked as an independent researcher

  • Meng Cao | LLMs, Mechanistic Analysis | PhD at Mila -> Research Scientist at DeepMind, 2025 - 2026
  • Jiayi Zhou | AI Safety | PhD at Peking U., 2025 - 2026
  • Hantao Lou | AI Safety | Undergrad at Peking U., 2025
  • Lin Chen | LLMs | Master at Shanghai Jiao Tong U., 2025
  • Xin Gao | Diffusion Model | Master at Fudan U., 2025
  • Yan Liu | Mechanistic Analysis | PhD at CUHK, 2025
  • Jiawei Zhou | LLMs | Master at Shanghai Jiao Tong U., 2025
  • Fengdi Che | Autoformalization, RL | PhD at U. of Alberta, 2025
  • Tianle Li | LLMs | PhD at HKU, 2025
  • Hantao Lou | Autoformalization | Undergrad at Peking U., 2025
  • Sitao Cheng | LLMs | PhD at Waterloo U., 2025
  • Yifei Shi | Autoformalization | Undergrad at Cambridge U., 2025
  • Xunjian Yin | LLMs | PhD at Duke U., 2025
  • Jingzhe Shi | Autoformalization | Undergrad at Tsinghua U., Yao Class, 2025
  • Ka Man Lo | Diffusion Model | Undergrad at Peking U., Yuanpei Class, 2022 - 24
  • Zekun Wang | LLMs | MPhil at Beihang U., 2022 - 24
  • Zihan Qiu | LLMs, Modular DL | undergrad at Tsinghua U., Yao Class -> Alibaba Qwen Team, 2022 - 24
  • Lukas Vierling | LLMs | Exchange undergrad at HKUST -> MPhil at Oxford, 2024
  • Ge Zhang | LLMs | Msc at U. of Michigan -> PhD at U. of Waterloo, 2022 - 23
  • Zeyu Huang | LLMs | PhD at U. of Edinburgh, 2022 - 23
  • Chenmien Tan | LLMs | Msc at U. of Edinburgh, 2023
  • Chenqing Hua | Graph neural network & Drug Discovery, MPhil at McGill U., 2022 - 23
  • Jiayi Geng | Meta Learning, Undergrad at McGill U. -> MPhil at Princeton U., 2022 - 23
  • Qi Liu | Molecular Dynamics, PhD at City U. of Hong Kong, 2022
  • Wei Pang | Drug Discovery, MSc at U. of Waterloo, 2022
Alumni (them as interns, me as mentor)

These are amazing students who I mentored and worked with when I was still a junior researcher

  • Zedian Xiao | Drug Discovery, undergrad at McGill U. -> MSc at Stanford U.
  • Zhijian Duan | RL, undergrad at Peking U. -> PhD at Peking U.
  • Mustafa Alghali | AI for social good, MSc at AMMI -> data scientist at Unity
  • Ronak Pradeep | Question answering, undergrad at U. of Waterloo -> PhD at U. of Waterloo
  • Ning Dai | Translation, undergrad at Fudan U. -> PhD at Oregon State U.
  • Dayiheng Liu | Text generation, PhD at Sichuan U. -> researcher at Alibaba
  • Shangbang Long | Adversarial attack, undergrad at Peking U. -> research engineer at Google
  • Vardaan Pahuja | Visual question answering, MSc at Mila -> PhD at Ohio State U.
  • Danlu Chen | Hyperparameter optimization, undergrad at Fudan U. -> PhD at UCSD
  • Ritchie Ng | Hyperparameter optimization, undergrad at NUS -> hedge fund director
  • Hongyin Luo | Hyperparameter optimization, undergrad at Tsinghua U. -> PhD at MIT