PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Lu Mi

Also known as 米璐

Lu Mi is a researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience, working on brain data and brain-computer interface algorithms. She earned a computer science PhD at MIT and was selected as a Rising Star in EECS in 2022. She held a postdoctoral research role at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the University of Washington and served as an assistant professor at Georgia Tech. Her work includes an interpretable model for neural connectivity, machine-learning-guided electron microscopy, and BrainPilot, an open-source agentic platform for brain-science research. Since 2025, she is an assistant professor at Tsinghua University's College of AI.

Works
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Citations
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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. By 2022

    MIT doctorate and Harvard fellowship

    She earns a bachelor's degree at Tsinghua University, holds a fellowship at Harvard's Center for Brain Science from 2020 to 2022, and completes a computer science PhD at MIT CSAIL in 2022 under Nir Shavit.

  2. 2022

    Rising Stars in EECS

    In 2022, she is selected as a Rising Star in EECS.

  3. 2022–2024

    Postdoctoral work and a NeurIPS paper

    From 2022 to 2024, she is a Shanahan postdoctoral research fellow at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the University of Washington. In 2023, she coauthors a NeurIPS paper on time-invariant representations for individual neurons from population dynamics.

  4. 2024–2025

    Assistant professor at Georgia Tech

    From 2024 to 2025, she serves as an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Computational Science and Engineering. Her research includes computational neuroscience and machine learning.

  5. 2025

    NetFormer at ICLR

    In 2025, she coauthors *NetFormer: An Interpretable Model for Recovering Dynamical Connectivity in Neuronal Population Dynamics*. ICLR selects it as a 2025 Spotlight paper (top 5.1%).

  6. December 2025

    SmartEM and electron microscopy

    In December 2025, she coauthors *SmartEM: machine learning-guided electron microscopy* in Nature Methods and provides access to an early version of the machine-learning imaging methods.

  7. July 2026

    BrainPilot for brain science

    In July 2026, she coauthors *BrainPilot*, an open-source multi-agent platform that accelerates brain-science research with traceable logs and agent-verified results.

  8. Since 2025

    Assistant professor at Tsinghua

    She joins the College of AI at Tsinghua University as an assistant professor in 2025. Her research connects AI and neuroscience, analyzes large multimodal brain data, and develops algorithms for brain-computer interfaces.

Career

  1. Since 2025Tsinghua UniversityAssistant professor
  2. 2024–2025Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssistant professor
  3. 2022–2024Allen InstituteShanahan postdoctoral research fellow
  4. 2022–2024University of WashingtonShanahan postdoctoral research fellow

Education

  1. 2022MIT CSAILPhD
  2. Tsinghua UniversityBachelor's degree

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Lu Mi - College of AI, Tsinghua University collegeai.tsinghua.edu.cn. Checked 26 October 2026.
  2. Lu Mi lumimim.github.io. Checked 26 October 2026.
  3. NeuroAI Lab (AI + Neuroscience) collegeai.tsinghua.edu.cn. Checked 26 October 2026.
  4. Lu Mi | School of Computational Science and Engineering cse.gatech.edu. Checked 26 October 2026.
  5. SmartEM: machine learning-guided electron microscopy nature.com. Checked 26 October 2026.
  6. BrainPilot: Automating Brain Discovery with Agentic Research arxiv.org. Checked 26 October 2026.