Zhimin Hu

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the Cognition and Brain Science Program at Georgia Tech, advised by Sashank Varma. I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I worked with Gary Lupyan, Larissa Albantakis and Catherine Marler.

I identify as both a cognitive scientist and a computer scientist, curious about how biological and artificial minds compute. On the science side, I use behavioral experiments and computational modeling to study how humans reason and plan adaptively under resource constraints. On the engineering side, I tackle open problems in LLM reasoning and robotic learning. I am also especially drawn to using representational geometry to characterize how models and brains represent concepts across contexts and task demands.

Before joining Georgia Tech, I worked as a Research Scientist Intern at miHoYo developing the memory system for LLM agents. Before that, I was an Algorithm Engineer Intern at Z.ai working on the continual pretraining & SFT of GLM-4.