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Name Zhaolu Liu
Email surname.lastname16[at]imperial.ac.uk
Summary Chapman-Schmidt Fellow at Imperial College London and DAAD AInet Fellow at the Technical University of Munich

Education

  • 2022 - 2026

    London, UK

    PhD in Mathematics
    Imperial College London
    Supervised by Professor Mauricio Barahona
    • Thesis: Characterising Higher-Order Interactions: A Lattice-Theoretic Approach
  • 2020 - 2021

    London, UK

    MRes in Biomedical Research (Data Science)
    Imperial College London
    Achieved Distinction
    • Natural Language Processing for Mental Health Text Services
    • Super-Resolution for Medical Imaging using Deep Learning
  • 2016 - 2020

    London, UK

    MSci in Mathematics
    Imperial College London
    Achieved First Class

Work

  • 2026 - Now
    Chapman-Schmidt Fellow
    Imperial College London
    Developing scalable foundation models for reconstructing the higher-order systems in neural population
  • 2026 - Now
    DAAD AInet Fellow
    Technical University of Munich
    Investigating the higher-order behaviours in LLM generalisation
  • 2026 - Now
    Research Associate
    Fleming Initiative & GSK
    Multiview molecular representation learning for antimicrobial resistance drug discovery
  • 2026 - 2026
    Visiting Student
    Technical University of Munich
    Investigated the structure of LLMs trained by growing and looping frameworks using graphs and hypergraphs
  • 2025 - 2026
    Student Researcher in AI for Mathematics
    Google DeepMind
    LLM evaluations for mathematical reasoning for Gemini 3 Deep Think and ChatGPT 5.2 Pro
  • 2022 - 2026
    Teaching Assistant for Business Analytics
    Imperial College Business School
    Teaching machine learning to MSc and MBA students
    • Business Analytics for MBA, Network Analytics, Analysis in Business, Workforce Analytics

Projects

Awards

Languages

English
Fluent
Chinese
Native

Skills

Python, MATLAB

Interests

Classical Music
Photography
Basketball
Ping Pong