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Lucas Zhao

Machine learning researcher and builder at Yale. I work on mechanistic interpretability, build AI-powered products, and create tools that make knowledge more accessible.

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Research

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Ongoing Research: Sparse Autoencoders for FLUX.1 Diffusion Transformers

Yale University · 2025

SCI Journal, Co-First Author: Studies on macrofungi diversity and discovery of new species of Abortiporus from Baotianman World Biosphere Reserve

Open Life Sciences · 2022

Single Author: Morphological and DNA Barcode Identification of the Delottococcus confusus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), an invasive alien species to China

Life Science Journal · 2023

Projects

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MIT iQuHack Quantum Hackathon

Led team to build an ML system predicting optimal quantum circuit simulation parameters, achieving 85% accuracy and 46-51% performance gains over baseline.

Neural Instinct

Building Nerve, a proactive AI agent that anticipates user needs — surfacing price drops, scheduling conflicts, and contextual suggestions with persistent cross-session memory.