Curriculum Vitae

Bowen Yu (余博文)

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. in Physics & Artificial Intelligence
Aug. 2024 – Jun. 2027 (Expected)
  • Major: Physics (Course 8), Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4)
  • GPA: 5.00/5.00 (as of Jun. 2025)
  • Selected Coursework: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computational Architecture, Probability and Statistics, Quantum Physics I, II & III, Physics of Solids, Statistical Mechanics II, Quantum Field Theory I
Peking University
B.S. in Physics
Sep. 2023 – Jul. 2024
  • GPA: 3.91/4.00
  • Selected Coursework: Introduction to Computation, Data Structure and Algorithms, Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Statistical Physics, Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
  • Transfer to MIT after one year of study
No.1 Middle School Affiliated to Central China Normal University
High School Diploma (华师一附中)
Sep. 2020 – Jun. 2023

Working Experiences

AI & Material Science Research Assistant @ MIT
Supervisor: Professor Mingda Li
Jan. 2025 — Present
  • Extensively leveraging various AI techniques in material and defect engineering, including convolutional neural networks, reinforcement learning methods, generative models, and machine learning force fields (MLFF)
  • Co-authored three papers in machine learning-based defect engineering and generative model-powered valence-informed material discovery
Large Language Model Data Researcher @ ByteDance
Aug. 2025 — Sep. 2025
  • Served as the Seed LLM data partner, led the design of benchmarks comprised of 500+ physics problems, from university to PhD level
  • Contributed to ongoing internal projects aimed at improving model reasoning fidelity on symbolic tasks
  • Co-led the development of a test-time scaling (TTS) pipeline that enabled gold-medal performance of AI models on IPhO 2025 theoretical problems
AI Workload Deployment Intern @ Intel
Jun. 2025 — Jul. 2025
  • Researched and authored internal tutorials on GPU memory layouts, including CuTe layout and linear layout
  • Analyzed the CuTeDSL lowering process to backend kernels using GEMM as a case study, informing optimizations for AI workload deployment
  • Authored internal technical notes adopted by the CuTeDSL framework team for performance reference

Achievements

International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) Gold Medalist
Jul. 2023
Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO) Gold Medalist
Dec. 2021 & Oct. 2022

Selected Projects

PaperPlay (HackMIT 2025)
Sep. 2025
  • Working in a group of four, developed a web platform that converts hand-drawn Mario-style levels into playable platformers in less than 5 minutes by leveraging OpenCV-based image recognition and deployed via Modal
  • Won 2nd place in the Modal sponsor track
  • Demo: https://demo-description.vercel.app/
Representation Efficiency in Neural Reasoning
MIT 6.7960 Deep Learning
Oct. 2025 — Dec. 2025
  • In a team of three, designed and executed a multilingual evaluation of mathematical reasoning on MMATH and GSM8K, comparing frontier APIs (ChatGPT-5.1, Gemini-2.5-Flash, DeepSeek-V3.2) and open-source 8B models across English, Chinese, Spanish, and Thai
  • Performed detailed token-length and character-length analyses under five tokenizers to quantify an Encoder Gap between intrinsic and realized representation density, showing up to 5-10% token savings
  • Implemented LoRA fine-tuning of Llama-3.1-8B on Chinese GSM8K, improving Chinese accuracy by 8.8 percentage points
  • Project repo: GitHub
  • Blog: Blog

Skills

  • Languages: English (fluent), Chinese (native), Cantonese (basic), Spanish (basic)
  • Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Bluespec, RISC-V Assembly, LaTeX
  • Libraries: PyTorch, NumPy, Matplotlib, ASE, PyMatgen, Matformer, MACE, Triton, CUTLASS

Hobbies

  • Long-distance running: Completed 1 half marathon with personal best of 1:48:56 (2023 Wuhan Marathon)
  • Table tennis
  • Movies
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Last updated: December 12, 2025