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Dr Yishun (Ethan) Lu
Research Member of Common Room
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Engineering Science
Yishun Lu is now a post-doctoral researcher at the Oxford e-Research Centre, working on neural network optimization with second-order gradient descent and large-scale distributed training. His research focuses on high-performance computing and AI for Science (AI4S), with a passion for applying AI to tackle challenges in efficient computing and large-scale scientific applications. He completed a four-year Master’s degree at Oxford with a dissertation on 1D neural networks for speaker recognition, followed by a DPhil on absorption correction in long-wavelength crystallography, leveraging HPC and AI to solve complex scientific problems. During his doctorate, he was a visiting scientist at Diamond Light Source, and his work has led to publications in leading biochemistry journals.