Peter Y. Lu

Office: Searle 202
I am a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at the University of Chicago working at the intersection of physics and machine learning. My research interests include physics-informed machine learning and interpretable representational learning with applications in nonlinear dynamics, condensed matter physics, photonics, fluid dynamics, biophysics, and other areas. I aim to develop new computational methods for modeling and understanding physical systems with an emphasis on incorporating physics-informed priors and identifying relevant and interpretable latent representations.
I received a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 2022, and an A.B. in Physics and Mathematics from Harvard in 2016.
Selected Publications
- Discovering Dynamical Parameters by Interpreting Echo State NetworksNeurIPS 2021 AI for Science Workshop (2021) — Best Paper Award