Ryan Zhang

About Me

I am a high school student at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, with substantial research experience despite my young age. In Summer 2025, I will be an intern at Autodesk in Portland, Oregon. Previously, in Summer 2024, I participated in a fellowship at the i⁴ FSI Lab at Westlake University, where I contributed to the development of cost-effective bionic devices. Currently, I am working on projects involving large language models and middleware at IBM, under the mentorship of Dr. Shiqiang Wang and TUM Ph.D. candidate Herbert Woisetschläger. I am passionate about taking on new challenges and eager to expand my knowledge and skills.

Research Interests

• Generative AI: large language models, optimization, energy efficiency
• Distributed Learning: edge devices, federated learning, tinyML
• Robotics: bionic devices, locomotion, soft robotics, AI integration

News

• [January. 2026] Our paper has been highlighted as a Spotlight Oral talk (Top 35 out of 330) at 2026 AAAI Student Track! View here.
• [October. 2025] Our paper has been accepted to the 2025 NeurIPS Main Conference! View here.
• [April. 2025] Our Wharton High School Data Science Competition team was selected as a Finalist for the 2025 competition! (Top 5 out of 500 Teams Internationally) View here.
• [October. 2024] Our paper has been accepted to the 2024 NeurIPS Workshop on Adaptive Foundation Models! View here.
• [July. 2024] We complete our bionic fish project. View here.

Publications

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