Summary
Junyan Cheng is a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at Dartmouth with eight years of research experience advancing NLP, large language model agents, deep learning, and program synthesis. He has held research internships at Microsoft Research and the Allen Institute for AI, and brings cross-disciplinary expertise from robotics and software engineering gained at USC and WPI. His work spans automatic scientific discovery, program analysis, and applying CV and deep learning to robotics and advanced manufacturing, reflecting a blend of theoretical and applied research. Junyan’s strong academic record (dual MS degrees with near-perfect GPAs) complements an Innovation Fellowship at Dartmouth, signalling both creativity and rigor. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who navigates between low-level robotics dynamics and high-level language models, making novel connections across domains. Based in Hanover, NH, he combines academic depth with practical research experience that accelerates prototype-to-publication impact.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Intelligent Robotics), Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Intelligent Robotics) at University of Southern California
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Dartmouth College
Master of Science - MS, Robotics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute