Kaifeng Lyu
Research Fellow, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
Kaifeng Lyu is currently a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at Princeton University, advised by Sanjeev Arora. Kaifeng will be joining the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Fall, 2025. Prior to his PhD study at Princeton, Kaifeng received his B.Eng. in Computer Science from Yao Class at Tsinghua University in 2019.
Kaifeng has a broad interest in the theoretical and scientific foundations of modern machine learning, with a particular focus on the training dynamics of neural networks, generalization in large foundation models, and AI safety/alignment.