I'm Jeffrey,

Loading...

Plot of (r, θ) = (p, p) for prime p with residue classes modulo 44 highlighted. Learn More

About

I study Data Science @ UMich Honors.
I’m currently researching for UMich LSI,
working on a world model project for MDST,
building agentic systems for private clients,
and (will be) studying abroad at LSE.

6+

Years of
Data Science

5+

Years of
ML Dev

Projects

A Go bot visual interface next to an annotated diagram of Monte-Carlo tree search

2026  —  Project Lead @ MDST

PaperZero

An exploration of latent trajectory diffusion and Monte-Carlo tree search approaches for efficient 2D origami inverse design with significantly more robust empirical performance on long-horizon targets compared to supervised and RL baselines.

A Go bot visual interface next to an annotated diagram of Monte-Carlo tree search

2025  —  Project Lead @ MDST

Mini-AlphaGo

A novel hybrid of AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero for 9x9 Go using only computational libraries, including an in-house Go game environment, Monte-Carlo tree search, parallelized training, visual web interface, and Elo-rated bot arena.

Overlapping panels of showing the GUI of the Tuesday web app

Ongoing  —  Founder, FDE @ Tuesday Technologies LLC

Tuesday Technologies

ML engineering and data science contracting at scale through forward deployed engineering. Notable projects include an agentic LLM-assisted knowledge management system for domain-specific engineering expertise and an enterprise-scale data error detection and correction pipeline.

Fractal Viewer

Demo Source Code

Mini-Projects

Dogsheep Beta

Demo Source Code

Fast Prime Spiral

Demo Source Code

Publications

2025  —  Data Journalism (The Michigan Daily)

Buying prestige on Product Hunt: How tech startups manufacture artificial success

Jeffrey Lu

Data Science, Entrepreneurship

2024  —  Conference Paper

Deep Manifold Learning for Reading Comprehension and Logical Reasoning Tasks with Polytuplet Loss

Jeffrey Lu, Ivan Rodriguez

Contrastive Learning, Deep Learning, NLP

2022  —  Course Paper  (first available online in 2023)

The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Health Disparities

Krish Khanna, Jeffrey Lu, Jay Warrier

Data Science, Public Health