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Alex Zhang
Student at Princeton University
Alex Zhang is a computer science professional with a strong background in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He graduated from Princeton University in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, majoring in Computer Science.1
Professional Experience
Alex has held several notable positions:
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Research Intern at SRI International: He interned at SRI International for two consecutive summers (2018 and 2019) in Princeton, New Jersey. During his time there, he worked on the DARPA L2M project, focusing on reinforcement learning and studying the effects of catastrophic forgetting using the PySC2 environment.1
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AI/ML Engineer at Apple: In the summer of 2022, Alex worked on transformer-based language models in the Siri Information Intelligence Team.1
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Undergraduate Student Researcher at Princeton University: From March 2021 onwards, he worked in the NLP Group under Professor Karthik Narasimhan.1
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Teaching Assistant at Princeton University: He has been a TA for various computer science courses, including Economics in Computing, Algorithms and Data Structures, Functional Programming, and Discrete Math.1
Academic Achievements
Alex was the valedictorian of his high school class at Montgomery High School.1 At Princeton, he received the Phillip Goldman '86 Senior Prize in Computer Science, which is the highest academic honor awarded to a single student by the Princeton CS department.2
Research Interests
His current research interests include:
- Efficient training and inference of AI models at a systems level
- Language grounding across different data modalities
- Guiding agent behavior through world model representations2
Alex has demonstrated a strong passion for AI, machine learning, and computer science throughout his academic and professional career.12
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