About

Curriculum Vitae | Google Scholar

I passed my PhD qualifying exam with an outstanding score from The Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Sciences and Technology, advised by Frank Ritter.

In my work, I study neural symbolic AI and its integration with foundation models.

In my life, I dance, sing, walk, and cook.

Recent news

Incoming ML&AI intern at Nokia Bell lab.

Selected publication

  • LLM-ACTR: from Cognitive Models to LLMs in Manufacturing Solutions.
    Siyu Wu, Alessandro Oltramari, Jonathan Francis, C. Lee Giles, Frank E. Ritter.
    AAAI-MAKE 2025
    Paper & repo coming soon.
  • Neurosymbolic Cognitive Methods for Enhancing Foundation Model-based Reasoning.
    Kaushik Roy, Wu, S., Alessandro Oltramari.
    Handbook on Neurosymbolic AI and Knowledge Graphs
    paper
  • VSM-ACT-R: Toward Using Cognitive Architecture For Manufacturing Solutions.
    Wu, S., Alessandro Oltramari, Frank Ritter.
    SBP-BRIMS 2024 Oral
    🏆 Best student paper
    paper | repo
  • Comparing LLMs for Prompt-Enhanced ACT-R and Soar Model Development: A Case Study in Cognitive Simulation
    Wu, S., Ferreira, R., Ritter, F. E., Walter., L.
    AAAI Symposia 2023 Oral
    paper | repo | slides
  • Long Road Ahead: Lessons Learned from the (soon to be) Longest Running Cognitive Model
    Wu, S. Bagherzadeh, A., Ritter, F. E., Tehranchi, F.
    ICCM 2023 Oral
    paper | repo | slides | simulation

Work

Teaching assist

Recent readings

Between two kingdoms (Suleika Jaouad)
故人何在（丰子恺)
Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) (Sebastian Raschka)
(Last updated: Feb 2025)