Daniel Lu

Computer science student at Carleton University, focused on practical NLP systems and low-latency inference.

In my free time, I contribute to the Hugging Face ecosystem, specifically refining transformer models.

Outside of CS, volleyball and guitar keep me sane. Feel free to say hi or browse my corkboard.

updated april 2026

selected works

The AI-powered volleyball video analysis platform that nobody else is getting right but everyone needs

A minimalistic, high-fidelity, guideline Tetris implementation for the command line

Streamlines queues with a decentralized virtual queue management system with Starknet (McHacks 2025 winner)

Real-time CV for tennis coaching, leveraging TrackNetV2 and convolutional RNNs (QHacks 2024 3rd place)

Published an paper on a new way to train a deep bidirectional GRU networks to transcribe continuous speech data.

BeReal-inspired mobile app aimed at fostering cultural awareness through immersive real-world exploration (GenAI Genesis 2024 winner)

Modern tool for musicians with AI-powered sound-to-instrument stem conversion capabilities (MAISHacks 2023 winner)

Shoot me an email at [email protected] or connect through one of the links below.

I'm always happy to connect with interesting people working on interesting problems. If something here resonates, I'd love to talk.

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