Wenhao Lu

Hi! I’m a 16-year-old passionate about AI safety research and building startups. My research spans mechanistic interpretability, spectral graph theory, and AI4Math — work that led to me being recruited by Vibhu Narwekar to his stealth AI venture as the only high schooler among the first group of research engineers, alongside ex-Microsoft, ex-Google, and ex-DeepMind engineers and PhDs from Stanford, MIT, and CMU, building a $100B+ AI unicorn in the next major AI category.

Currently building: NXT Horizon, an AI accelerator for underrepresented students across 50+ countries ($17K in STEM access from sponsors including HRT and Codecrafters), and Probix, a side project I’m trying to turn into a startup — if you’re a VC or investor, please reach out!

Previous olympiad competitor turned startup enthusiast, with a focus on emerging tech for social impact. Outside of research and building, I enjoy creative writing, spikeball, and baseball. Always happy to connect with fellow researchers and builders!