cv
This is my CV. You can also download it as a PDF.
Basics
Name | Keyu He |
Label | Student, Undergraduate Researcher |
frankhe@usc.edu | |
Phone | (213) 713-2973 |
Url | https://keyu-he.github.io/ |
Summary | Undergraduate double major in Computer Science and Applied & Computational Mathematics with a minor in Artificial Intelligence Applications. Passionate about explainable NLP systems, interpretable machine learning, and cross-disciplinary AI research. |
Education
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2021.08 - 2025.05 Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor's
University of Southern California
Computer Science and Applied & Computational Mathematics
- Language Models in Natural Language Processing (A)
- Applied Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing (A)
- Introduction to Machine Learning (A)
- Applications of Machine Learning (A)
- Professional C++ (A)
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (A)
- Applied Neural Networks (A)
- Introduction to Data Analysis (A)
- Introduction to Computer Systems (A)
- Introduction to Embedded Systems (A)
- Introduction to Internetworking (A)
- Data Structure and Object-Oriented Design (A)
- Introduction to Algorithms and the Theory of Computing (A-)
- Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (A)
- Probability Theory (A)
- Mathematical Statistics (A)
- Numerical Methods (A)
Publications
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2025.02 Beyond the Text: How Explanation Qualities Influence User Trust in Visual Language Models
(in preparation for NeurIPS submission)
Identify limitations of current text-only metric and explore new vision-specific qualities to improve trust in explanations by VLMs.
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2025.02 ELI-Why: Evaluating the Pedagogical Utility of LLM Explanations
Submitted to ACL 2025
Evaluate the pedagogical utility of LLMs in tailoring explanations to users with different educational backgrounds.
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2025.01 Attributing Culture-Conditioned Generations to Pretraining Corpora
ICLR 2025
This paper introduces MEMOed, a framework to analyze whether AI generations are driven by memorization or generalization, with a focus on cultural symbols.
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2023.12 Enhancing Debugging Skills of LLMs with Prompt Engineering
Technical Report
Projects
- 2024.03 - 2024.04
LLM Prompt Recovery
Developed a system to recover user prompts using fine-tuned Mixtral models, achieving top 3.4% in a Kaggle competition.
- Achieved a score of 0.65 using sentence-T5-base and sharpened cosine similarity.
- Ranked 75/2175 globally in the Kaggle competition.
- Published fine-tuned model on Kaggle for broader access.
- 2024.11 - 2024.12
AI-Based Career Advisor
Built an AI tool to assist users in planning career paths based on skills and interests.
- Developed a Streamlit-based interactive UI integrating GPT-4o for job suggestions.
- Implemented cosine similarity search for skill-job matching.
- Integrated Bing AI for real-time job application link retrieval.
- 2023.08 - 2023.11
Enhancing Debugging Skills of LLMs with Prompt Engineering
Improved LLM debugging capabilities through advanced prompt engineering techniques.
- Experimented with various prompting strategies to enhance debugging efficiency.
- Achieved significant improvements in LLM performance on debugging tasks.
- 2023.09 - 2023.12
Automated Hate Speech Detection in Social Media
Developed an advanced ML model for detecting hate speech, achieving 94% accuracy.
- Fine-tuned BERT for classification tasks.
- Enhanced online safety and inclusivity through robust model optimization.
Skills
Programming | |
C++ | |
Python | |
Java | |
MySQL | |
HTML | |
CSS | |
JS |
Software | |
LaTeX | |
Mathematica | |
Matlab |
Languages | |
Mandarin (native) | |
English (professional) |
Awards
- 2024.04
Silver Medal, Kaggle Competition
Ranked 75/2175 (Top 3.4%) on the global leaderboard, LLM Prompt Recovery Project.
- 2022.12
USC Academic Achievement Award
Awarded in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, and Fall 2024. Covered 11 units of tuition costs in total, amounting to approximately $24,000.
- 2022.04
4th Place, USC Integral Bee Competition
Ranked 4th in the USC Integral Bee Competition.
- 2021.07
1st Prize, International Linguistics Olympiad
Senior Level, Individual Open Round, China.
- 2021.07
1st Prize, International Linguistics Olympiad
Senior Level, Team Open Round, China.