Kevin Lu
lu.kev@northeastern.edu
Concept Erasure & Steering Protein Design
I work on mechanistic interpretability of text to image diffusion models & protein language models. Currently an undergraduate researcher in the Bau Lab and a co-op at Takeda Pharmaceuticals training SAEs for antibody protein design! I'm interested in CS PhD programs focused on accelerating and interpreting drug discovery pipelines.
Protein Folding (ESM Folding Trunk Logit Lens)
News
- Sep 2025 — Our paper When are concepts erased from diffusion models? accepted to NeurIPS Main Track!
- Aug 2025 — Served as a reviewer for NeurIPS Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop.
- Aug 2025 — Presented To Bind or Not to Bind: A Layer-Wise Dissection of Binding Information in ESM at New England Mech Interp (NEMI) Workshop.
- Jul 2025 — Started co-op at Takeda Pharmaceuticals: focusing on PLM interpretability for antibody protein design.
- Jun 2025 — Presented Where do concepts go in diffusion models? CVPR Generative Models for Computer Vision Workshop and Visual Concepts Workshop!