Alex Gu
Scholar

Alex Gu

Google Scholar ID: jRQtBp0AAAAJ
MIT
program synthesismachine learninglarge language modelscode generation
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
4,468
 
H-index
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i10-index
12
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
0
 
Publications
13 items
Zero2Repo: Can Coding Agents Build Repositories from Scratch?
2026
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Beyond Problem Solving: UOJ-Bench for Evaluating Code Generation, Hacking, and Repair in Competitive Programming
2026
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SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks
2026
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Vibe Code Bench: Evaluating AI Models on End-to-End Web Application Development
2026
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Task Completion Agents are Not Ideal Collaborators
2025
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ProofOptimizer: Training Language Models to Simplify Proofs without Human Demonstrations
2025
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CWM: An Open-Weights LLM for Research on Code Generation with World Models
2025
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Investigating Advanced Reasoning of Large Language Models via Black-Box Interaction
2025
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Resume
Academic Achievements
  • - Published 'Applications of Deep Learning in Medical Imaging' in Nature
  • - Received Best Doctoral Thesis Award of 2019
  • - Holds two patents related to image recognition technology
Research Experience
  • - Research Assistant at MIT, involved in multiple AI-related research projects
  • - Intern at Stanford University, worked with the Natural Language Processing team
Education
  • - Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, 2015-2020, Advisor: Prof. Zhang
  • - M.S., Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, 2013-2015
  • - B.A., Harvard University, Double Major in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2009-2013
Background
  • - Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • - Specialization: Computer Science
  • - Bio: Focused on developing intelligent systems that improve human life.
Miscellany
  • - Enjoys reading science fiction and hiking in his free time