Maochuan Lu

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Bachelor of Art in Mathematics and Computer Science

Aug, 2021 - May, 2025

Minor: Data Science

Skills: Machine Learning, NLP, LLMs

Research Experience

Research Assistant - Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab

Berkeley, CA, U.S | Feb, 2024 - Current

  • Projects: Model-Editing.
  • Task 1: Prove the hypothesis MEMIT is gradient descent, and try to improve model-editing technique based on this
  • Task 2: Fast MEMIT
  • Task 3: Building the internal knowledge graph of LLMs as a new metric to measure the perfomance of model-editing
  • Task 4: Evaluate perfomance of improved EMMET, MEMIT, ROME using unified model editing

Research Assistant - Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management

Beijing, China | May, 2023 - Aug, 2023

  • Projects: Worked on LLM's economic rationality.
  • Communication: Presented research findings in group meetings, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to interpret results and communicate.
  • Tasks and Achievements:
    • Utilized experimental economics and revealed preference theory to compare rationality levels between GPT and Ernie LLMs.
    • Prepared a analysis for PNAS revise-and-resubmit submission, ensuring data accuracy and experiment reliability.

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