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Lu Li is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Applied Math and Computational Science (AMCS) program at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of PennCIL, a Penn research center focused on advancing clinical and biomedical data science. Lu’s research focuses on LLM post-training and reasoning, as well as long-horizon, multi-turn tool-calling agents and credit assignment. Lu currently works on building agentic capabilities for large language models as autonomous agents on the ByteDance Seed team and contributed to Seed 2.X. Previously, Lu received a B.A. in Mathematics (Honors) and Computer Science from Macalester College.

Education

  • MA, Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School 2026
  • MA, Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania 2024
  • Bachelor’s degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Macalester College 2021

Contact

Email: luli1@sas.upenn.edu
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