Hi, I am Yulu Gan, a second-year CS PhD at MIT, studying AI and Science. Advised by Tomaso Poggio and Phillip Isola. My research draws inspiration from biological evolution to design algorithms and enable algorithm-hardware co-design, with a focus on understanding and improving LLMs and VLMs. I have interned at Microsoft Research, Cognizant and will be interning at NVIDIA in Santa Clara this summer.