Huace (Josh) Yu

Undergraduate at Yale College. Computer Science + Psychology.

Summer Pre-College Program (Programming 15-112, Linear Algebra 21-241; A in both).

Awards: Principal's Award (Valedictorian).

• Developing methods to detect paltering in AI models, where a model avoids false statements but phrases its answers so the user is led to a false belief.

• Exploring how LLMs reason across multiple scientific papers.

• Studied how AI agents influence human self-perception by building a multi-agent simulation in which LLM agents and human participants engaged in self-revelatory dialogue, finding measurable self-view convergence in social contexts but not perceptual ones.

• Led a team as project head to design and evaluate a mobile mini program for medication management in chronic kidney disease patients; paper accepted into the CTB database, project advanced to global finals and awarded third place.

• Develop Yale Meals, an open-source app for Yale dining menus and meal statistics.
• Used by a large share of students on campus.

• Refining a deepfake audio detection model within the company's data processing pipeline through pruning and retraining.
• Conducting stress tests across services in the data processing pipeline and performed quality assessments to identify bottlenecks and weak points.
• Overhauled data curation, centralized company audio data from spreadsheets into a web-based platform.