Kevin Lu
lu.kev@northeastern.edu
Bio
I'm Kevin, I'm an incoming PhD student at the Bau Lab in Northeastern University. I'm working on mechanistic interpretability of models for virtual biology: protein language models, protein structure generators, and single cell foundation models. My goal is to understand and improve models to accelerate drug discovery pipelines.
Check out this interactive "DecoderLens" for ESMFold demo! -->
How does ESM-2 build up useful structural information across layers?
DecoderLens ESM language model encoder using folding trunk
News
- March 2026 — Mechanisms of AI Protein Folding in ESMFold accepted to the ICLR GEM Bio Workshop!
- Feb 2026 — Presented a seminar on Mechanisms of AI Protein Folding in ESMFold at the Flatiron Institute
- Feb 2026 — Serving as a reviewer for ICLR Scientific Methods for Deep Learning Workshop.
- Nov 2025 — Served as a reviewer for ICLR Main Conference (Geometric Deep Learning).
- 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.
- Jul 2025 — Started 6 month internship at Takeda Pharmaceuticals: focusing on pLM interpretability for antibody protein design.