Scholar
Alex L. Zhang
Google Scholar ID: rtCr0q4AAAAJ
PhD student, MIT CSAIL
Citations & Impact
Citations
110
H-index
5
i10-index
2
Publications
9
Co-authors
10
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: KernelBot: A Competition Platform for Writing Heterogeneous GPU Code (CODEML @ ICML 2025), VideoGameBench: Can Vision-Language Models complete popular video games? (Under review); Projects: Project Popcorn, Triton kernels for OSS AlphaFold3 (1k+ ⭐'s); Awards: Best Paper Award for KernelBench at ICML 2025 DL4C.
Research Experience
- Spent a summer at Sakana AI; worked for a year at VantAI on AI-based drug discovery; conducted AI/ML research during internships at Snapchat, Apple, and Claryo.
Education
- Graduated as the top student of the Princeton CS department in 2024, with mentors including Professor Karthik Narasimhan, Dr. Khanh Nguyen, Dr. Ofir Press, and Professor Kai Li.
Background
- Research interests include evaluating language model capabilities, systems and GPU programming for machine learning, and AI for code generation. Currently a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, advised by Omar Khattab.
Miscellany
- Interests include mathematics and CS theory; actively involved in the GPU MODE community; previously made and sold PC games, one of which had over 100k players.
