Yuan Lu

Yuan Lu

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

About Me

I’m an undergraduate student in the Arete Honors Program - AI Biomedical Major at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) 🇹🇼, admitted through Special Selection for outstanding achievements in NLP and ML.

I’m currently an AI Engineer at Tenfold AI ⚖️, building legal AI systems with agentic architectures on AWS, and serving as President of Google Developer Group on Campus (GDGC NYCU) 🎓.

I am currently conducting research across three labs: Prof. Hung-Yu Kao (NTHU IKM Lab) on LLM reasoning and evaluation; Prof. Hong-Han Shuai (NYCU BASIC Lab) on Vision-Language-Action models and cross-modal alignment; and Prof. Chia-Mu Yu (NYCU) on adversarial robustness and safety alignment in LLMs and VLMs.

Research-wise, I’m interested in the broad area of NLP and AI, with a focus on:

  • LLM Agents: Designing agentic frameworks and multi-agent systems where LLMs autonomously plan, reason, and collaborate through structured interaction.
  • Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models: Investigating multimodal models that bridge visual perception, language understanding, and action generation for embodied and interactive AI.
  • LLM/VLM Security: Studying adversarial robustness, backdoor vulnerabilities, and safety alignment in large language and vision-language models.

I also enjoy participating in ML/DS competitions and have a strong interest in interdisciplinary applications of AI across Biomedicine, Law, and Data Science.

🗞️ News

  • [Mar 2026] 🧬 Won 1st Place (AI Scientist Track) at Bio×AI Hackathon @ Y Combinator HQ, advancing to the Top 8 Finals on the main stage!
  • [Dec 2025] 🏆 Won Best Human Alignment Award in CURE-Bench @ NeurIPS 2025, invited for oral presentation and poster session, see you in San Diego 🌴🌅!
  • [Dec 2025] 🎮 Achieved 4th Place in MindGames @ NeurIPS 2025 — Theory-of-Mind Challenges for LLM Agents!
  • [Jun 2025] 🤖 Attending AI Startup School held by Y Combinator, see you in San Francisco 🌉!
  • [Jun 2025] 🚀 Joined Tenfold AI as an AI Engineer.
  • [Jun 2025] 🎓 Serving as President of Google Developer Group on Campus (GDGC) at NYCU!
  • [Jan 2025] 🎓 Admitted to NYCU Arete Honors Program – AI Biomedical Major through Special Selection!
  • [Dec 2024] 🍻 Won 2nd Place (out of 934 teams) in AICUP 2024 Solar Power Prediction Competition!
  • [Dec 2024] 🍻 Won 3rd Place (out of 487 teams) in AICUP 2024 Finance RAG Competition!
  • [Sep 2023] 🏆 Won 2nd Place & Best Creative Award in TASA AI Cloud Computing Competition!

✉️ Contact

📝 Publications

[1] Characterised LLMs Affect its Evaluation of Summary and Translation
Yu-An Lu, Yu-Ting Lin
AACL 2023 Workshop on Evaluation & Comparison of NLP Systems · Creative Method Award
[Paper]

[2] 0x.Yuan at SemEval-2024 Task 2: Agents Debating can reach consensus and produce better outcomes in Medical NLI task
Yu-An Lu, Hung-Yu Kao
NAACL 2024 Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
[Paper]

[3] 0x.Yuan at SemEval-2024 Task 5: Enhancing Legal Argument Reasoning with Structured Prompts
Yu-An Lu, Hung-Yu Kao
NAACL 2024 Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
[Paper]

🎖️ Honors and Awards

  • Bio×AI Hackathon @ Y Combinator, 1st Place on AI Scientist Track, 2026
  • CURE-Bench @ NeurIPS 2025 – AI Reasoning for Therapeutic Decision-Making, Best Human Alignment Award, 2025
  • MindGames @ NeurIPS 2025 – Theory-of-Mind Challenges for LLM Agents, 4th Place, 2025
  • AICUP 2024 Fall – Solar Power Prediction, 2nd Place of 934 Teams, 2024
  • AICUP 2024 Fall – Finance RAG Competition, 3rd Place of 487 Teams, 2024
  • AICUP 2023 Fall – Credit Card Fraud Detection, 15th Place of 394 Teams, 2023
  • TASA AI Cloud Computing Competition, 2nd Place & Best Creative Award, 2023
  • Creative Method Award, Eval4NLP@AACL 2023

💼 Experience

AI Engineer | Tenfold AI June 2025 – Present

  • Developing legal document retrieval agents and confidence scoring systems for RAG outputs.
  • Building legal contract generation pipelines with cross-statute research and parallelized drafting.
  • Deploying services on AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS, SNS/SQS, Bedrock) and LangGraph Platform.

President | Google Developer Group on Campus (GDGC NYCU) June 2025 – Present

  • Leading the community in research and entrepreneurship-oriented project development.
  • Organizing events and workshops to introduce K-12 students to cutting-edge AI technologies.

Research Fellow | AI Advanced Talent Program (Ministry of Education, Taiwan) June 2023 – June 2024

  • Conducted research under Prof. Hung-Yu Kao’s supervision, publishing papers in NLP and competing in Data Science. Research fields include Multi-Agent systems and RAG.

Research Fellow | Young Scientists Program (Ministry of Education, Taiwan) June 2023 – Dec 2023

  • Researched instruction-tuning effects on legal dialogue models, and developed optimization techniques for Taiwanese legal-specific LLMs with Prof. An-zi Yen.