Warren 朱富橙

I'm a senior at Harvard University and grew up in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. I want to build tools that help us understand things, communicate to others, and be happy.

I love and hate modern technology, and I am especially skeptical of (social) science. I split my time between playing with new stuff, reading about old things, and being with loved ones.

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Currently

• I’m exploring new AI interfaces with Matthew Kotzbauer.

Education

• Harvard University (Class of 2026)
  • B.A. in Computer Science
  • M.S. in Statistics
  • Secondary in Educational Studies

Research

ML Systems Projects

• I’ve worked on the standardization of fault tolerance protocols for distributed ML. I presented “CRAFT: A Pytorch-based Protocol for Composing Fault Tolerance Techniques” (poster) as a poster in Pytorch Conference 2025, and I have contributed to torchFT to improve the fault tolerance of distributed ML systems.

Statistics Research

I did Harvard’s SPUDS during Summer 2024, sponsored by the great Xiao-Li Meng and under the incredible mentorship of Connor Jerzak. It appeared in clear2025.

Also with Connor, I contributed to fastrerandomize, a GPU-accelerated R package for statistical rerandomization in experimental research. The paper is forthcoming in SoftwareX.

Teaching

I had the pleasure to be a teaching assisstant for these wonderful courses:

Fall 2024: Course Assisstant for Stat188 (Variations, Information, and Privacy) under Prof. Xiao-Li Meng, with the Graduate Teaching Assistant Kyla Chasalow. Spring 2025: Course Assisstant for Stat111 under Prof. Joe Blitzstein, and Stat288 under Prof. Xiao-Li Meng.

I have also been tutoring highschoolers after seeing how helpful I could be to my sister in thinking through her academic and life choices. It has been even more fun than teaching college students!

I gave a guest lecture on Multi-Scale Causal ML + Satellites research for Stat288, and a guest lecture on Agentic AI Systems and Deployment for GOV355M (AI Programming Foundations).

For Winter 2025, I went to Yerevan, Armenia to lead a two week Learning Lab on “Building Tools with GenAI” at TUMO. I had the sweetest experience that I wrote about here.

Art

Moving Pictures: I am a sucker for Wong Kar-wai movies (especially Ashes of Time and Fallen Angels) and love Twin Peaks, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Brideshead Revisited, and Yes, (Prime) Minister!.

Literature: Antifragile, Bed of Procrustes, Skin In The Game, The Analects, The Bible, The Dream Machine, A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again, Moby Dick, Wittgenstein’s Mistress, Around the World in 80 Days, Speak\, Memory, A Moveable Feast, The Timeless Way of Building, Hannah Arendt’s Essay Collections, Being and Time, The Phenomenology of Spirit, Swann’s Way, Kant’s Critiques, The Trial, What Do You Care What Other People Think.

Visual Arts: Matisse’s Cut-Outs, Monet’s Rouen Cathedral, Michaelangelo’s The Last Judgement and Pieta, Mondrian’s Grids, Kandinsky (Bauhaus and Paris periods), Samtavo Monastery (Georgia), Jardin Majorelle, Van Gogh’s The Church at Auvers, Delaroche’s The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, Collier’s Lady Godiva, Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne.

Music: The Beatles (Basically All of It), Rachnaminov Prelude Op.32 No.6, Eternal Flame, Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould 1981), ABBA, Brahms Intermezzi, Beejees, The Mamas & The Papas (Especially People Like Us), Lennon and Ono, Leslie Cheung, Fei Wang, PREP, Herman’s Hermits, Summer Salt, Queen, Delegation, LANY.

Other Miscenalleous Facts

I went to Harrow International School Hong Kong, where I had fond memories studying History, Drama, English, Music, and playing Badminton and Rugby. However, my experience with the bureaucracies there, as well as just being a child who was not suitable with the general educational system, made me often terribly unhappy, and helped me understand I will have a difficult time being in a system with a great amount of formality.

I had a lot of free time on my hand during COVID and spent a lot of time reading continental philosophy (Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Hegel, Kant, etc.). I won the Trinity College Philosophy Essay Prize for my essay on Social Media and Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Solitude. I was also highly commended in the Philosophy section of the John Locke Essay Prize for an essay on Heidegger and Morality.

I like to absorb vocabulary from different languages by setting my electronic’s system language to them. I’ve graduated from the Spanish phase and I’m currently in the French/Italian/German phase. I’ve also found that it is a good way to hide response latency from Language Models. This is the prompt that I use:

### Language Mode
LANGUAGES=[Italian, French, German]
Begin every response with:

1. **Full translations**: One line per language, formatted as [Flag Emoji] [Full sentence translation]

2. **Phrase alignment table** (for prompts ≥8 words): A markdown table aligning non-cognate and structurally divergent phrases:

| English  | 🇮🇹 Italian        | 🇫🇷 French         | 🇩🇪 German         |
| -------- | ----------------- | ----------------- | ----------------- |
| [phrase] | **[translation]** | **[translation]** | **[translation]** |

Skip rows where all three are obvious cognates (e.g., university/università/université/Universität). Include brief parenthetical notes for grammatical divergences (case marking, word order, pronoun dropping, fused forms). Keep tables ≤10 rows, prioritizing: verb constructions, question formation, preposition differences, and words with distinct etymological roots across the three.