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Contact Information

Name Lanhao Niu
Professional Title Master of Science in Cognitive Science
Email s2798445@ed.ac.uk; lanhao.niu.official@gmail.com

Experience

  • 2024.05 - 2024.12

    Beijing, China

    Algorithm Engineer Intern
    Z.AI (Zhipu AI)
    • Integrated RAG pipelines with structured knowledge bases; designed tool-use workflows combining NER, Cypher query generation, and LLM-based reasoning for knowledge graph querying.
    • Fine-tuned LLMs for structured knowledge extraction using LoRA via Llama-Factory, achieving high accuracy on entity-relation triple extraction and SQL generation tasks.
    • Built multimodal document parsing pipelines using Vision-Language Models, designing visual-prompting strategies that significantly outperformed traditional OCR pipelines.

Education

  • 2025 - 2026

    Edinburgh, UK

    Master of Science
    University of Edinburgh
    Cognitive Science
  • 2021 - 2025

    Nanjing, China

    Bachelor of Engineering
    Nanjing Agricultural University
    Data Science and Big Data Technology

Skills

LLM: RAG, SFT, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Dify; tool-use agent design, prompt engineering
ML: PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, Vision-Language Models, Representational Geometry
Engineering: Python, Git, Docker, Google Cloud, Linux/Bash, Django, Gradio, Pyro, Neo4j, SQL

Languages

Mandarin : Native speaker
English : Fluent