Zhaolu (Tim) Liu

Email. firstname.surname16[at]imperial.ac.uk

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6m34, Huxley Building

180 Queen's Gate

London, United Kingdom

Hi, I’m Tim! I am a Chapman-Schmidt Fellow at Imperial College London and a DAAD AInet Fellow at the Technical University of Munich. I completed my PhD in Mathematics at Imperial College London in 2026 under the supervision of Professor Mauricio Barahona. Before that, I did an MRes in Biomedical Research and an MSci in Mathematics, also at Imperial.

My current research uses AI to uncover and make use of the structure and relations hidden in data, from the dependencies between mathematical results, to the topological and geometric representation of molecules, to the interactions between neurons in large language models.

news

Oct 01, 2026 I have started as a DAAD AInet Fellow at TUM.
Sep 01, 2026 I have started as a Chapman-Schmidt Fellow at Imperial College London.
Aug 01, 2026 I have officially completed my PhD in Mathematics at Imperial College London.

selected publications

  1. NeurIPS
    Interaction measures, partition lattices and kernel tests for high-order interactions
    Zhaolu Liu, Robert Peach, Pedro AM Mediano, and Mauricio Barahona
    Advances in neural information processing systems, 2023
  2. AISTATS
    Information-Theoretic Measures on Lattices for High-Order Interactions
    Zhaolu Liu, Mauricio Barahona, and Robert L Peach
    The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2025
  3. ICML
    Permutation-Free High-Order Interaction Tests
    Zhaolu Liu, Robert L Peach, and Mauricio Barahona
    International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025