Tim profile

Shuyao "Tim" Xu


Final Year Undergraduate
Computer Science Major
National University of Singapore

shuyao [at] u.nus.edu



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Bio

Hello, I'm Shuyao, a final-year Computer Science undergraduate at the National University of Singapore. I am currently exploring inference-time techniques to advance the frontiers of large language model reasoning, working with Prof. Meng Yu from the University of Virginia. I also collaborate closely with Prof. Bryan Hooi from NUS, who serves as my thesis advisor, and Dr. Weidi Xu, who hosted me as an intern at Inf AI.

When I'm not coding or researching, I enjoy photography and traveling. Some of my favorite memories come from capturing the dramatic volcanoes in Surabaya and the breathtaking landscapes of Yosemite National Park.

I'm actively seeking PhD opportunities to delve deeper into core LLM research. If you have any openings, ideas, or just want to chat, feel free to reach out!


Research

Reinforcement Distillation from Teacher Data for LLM Reasoning
Shuyao Xu, Cheng Peng, Jiangxuan Long, Weidi Xu, Wei Chu, Yuan Qi
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning · Oct 2025 · Preprint
The Surprising Effectiveness of Randomness in LLM Pruning
Shuyao Xu, Liu Jiayao, Zhenfeng He, Cheng Peng, Weidi Xu
ICLR 2025 Workshop On Sparsity in LLMs · March 2025 · Paper

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for CS2103/T Software Engineering
Tutor for CS3281 Thematic Systems Project

Website design inspired by Dr. Angela Yao's homepage.