About

Hi, this is Chenyu.

I am a last-year Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt, advised by Dr. Bennett Landman, graduating in Nov 2026, and seeking full-time Applied Scientist roles.

My CV is available here (updated on Jun 15, 2026).

News

• May 15, 2026: I wrapped up a rewarding spring internship at TikTok (ByteDance), where I was fortunate to work with talented colleagues from the Content Ecology team and the Intelligent Creation team on reward model design for video generation model post-training and LLM-driven video understanding and scoring.
• May 13, 2026: Congratulations to Michael on the Nature paper! It makes me the luckiest second author in the world.
• August 30, 2025: I wrapped up a wonderful summer internship at insitro, where I designed a multimodal, self-supervised representation learning framework for novel gene discovery. I worked closely with my mentor Kaiwen Xu and my manager Nick Eriksson, who provided incredible support and guidance, and many colleagues on the Compute team who helped accelerate the development and validation of our method.