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Hello, traveler from afar, who has stumbled upon this humble corner of the internet. Whether your arrival is by chance or by intention, you’re warmly welcomed. May you find exactly what you’re seeking—or perhaps uncover something delightful and unexpected.

I’m Xiang Fu

, currently a Data Science and Computer Science student in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University taking these courses

BU Coursework

A collection of courses I've taken at Boston Universit. Here’s what I’ve completed, along with some I’m currently working through. Spring 2026 CAS...

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. Most recently, I’ve been working with the wonderful Najoung Kim, Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Kevin Gold, and Bo Feng.

My research interests are in model behavior, evaluation, and alignment of language models. I aim to understand the internal mechanisms by which these systems represent and transform information; design metrics that reveal both their strengths and blind spots; and devise alignment techniques that reliably steer their outputs toward human values and intent. More broadly, I probe the interface between machine and human cognition—examining how artificial models learn to generalize, reason, and communicate in ways that both parallel and depart from human understanding. To pursue this work further, I started Modularium Research, where we study how models behave and develop better ways to evaluate them.

Should you choose to explore further, you might start with some projects

Projects

A collection of my projects and experiments. Many of these started as . BU Courses Website: https://bucourses.com Argoria [2025 - Present] Advisor: Kevin Gold Cognivolve...

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, photos, writing, ideas, or thoughts

Thoughts

Seeing Differently Train my eyes instead of inheriting the world’s well‑trodden gaze. Glorious Pointlessness Prove to myself that I can do something totally...

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. For those who enjoy playing around with maps, scroll down and one shall be revealed.

There’s also my CV

, schedule

Schedule

My personal schedule....

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, or public key

Public Key

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in case you’re looking for any of those.


H4 Newsroom

17 October 2025
Poster presentation at Boston University’s 28th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

21 September 2025
Who’s the Impostor? Multi‑Agent Social Deduction for Evaluating LLM Social Reasoning was accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Evaluating the Evolving LLM Lifecycle: Benchmarks, Emergent Abilities, and Scaling. See you in San Diego!

4 August 2025
Humans have more sophisticated strategies for processing semantically anomalous word pairs than do Large Language Models to appear at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (work with Catherine Caldwell-Harris).

7 July 2025
M^2IV: Towards Efficient and Fine-grained Multimodal In-Context Learning via Representation Engineering (work with Yanshu Li, Hongyang He, Yi Cao, Qisen Cheng, Xi Xiao, Tianyang Wang, Ruixiang Tang) accepted to COLM.

19 May 2025
New preprint available on arXiv:
Xiang Fu. 2025. Can an Easy-to-Hard Curriculum Make Reasoning Emerge in Small Language Models? Evidence from a Four-Stage Curriculum on GPT-2. arXiv:2505.11643 [cs.CL].

8 April 2025
Received a $6,000 Student Research Award (SRA) from the Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for Summer 2025. Excited to work alongside Najoung on this project!

18 September 2024
Awarded the Provost’s Scholars Award ($1000 research funding) from Boston University.

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