Yifan Zhang
Princeton AI Lab Fellow at Princeton University
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Zhang is a PhD student and Graduate Fellow at Princeton University focused on building scalable, high-capability large language models. With eight years of experience across academia and industry, he has held research roles at Tsinghua, UCLA, and a Seed LLM internship at ByteDance working on pretraining and scaling. His work blends rigorous ML theory from an MPhil and BS in Math & CS with hands-on systems practice in model training and optimization. Based in the New York City area, he brings cross-institutional collaboration experience and a track record of moving research into large-scale experimental settings. Notably, Yifan transitioned between top research labs internationally, signaling both adaptability and a strong network across the AI research community.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Peking UniversityPhD Candidate & MPhil Computer Science, PhD Candidate & MPhil Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning at Princeton University
Github Skills (47)
llama10
multimodal10
large-language-models10
inference10
reinforcement-learning10
llm10
leaderboard10
prompting10
cuda10
foundation-models10
transformer10
wan10
reasoning10
contrastive-learning10
minimax10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
deep-alignment/DeepRLHF
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
DeepRLHF (modified from OpenRLHF)
Contributions:3 PRs, 169 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
meta-prompting/meta-prompting
Nov 2023 - Dec 2025
Official implementation of Meta Prompting for AI Systems (https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11482)
Contributions:101 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 1 month
aiai-systemsfoundation-modelslarge-language-modelsllm
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