Alex L. Zhang

The first thing you should do is check out vgbench.com, and then go participate in the AMD x GPU MODE $100K GPU coding competition!

Hey 👋! I recently graduated after spending a wonderful 4 years at Princeton University advised by Professor Karthik Narasimhan, Dr. Khanh Nguyen, and Professor Kai Li. There, I received the Phillip Goldman ‘86 Senior Prize in Computer Science, which is awarded to the top undergraduate student in the Princeton CS department.

The most recent projects (+ research) I've led / majorly contributed to are (🔀 by ⏰):

• Neo-1, the first model for de novo molecular generation + structure prediction.
• Open source Project Popcorn 🍿 for generating GPU kernels with LLMs.
• KernelBench: environment for evaluating LLM-generated CUDA / Triton kernels.
• Multi-modal task instances for SWE-bench with the original authors.
• Fast kernels for scaling Ligo's open source AlphaFold3, 900+ GitHub ⭐'s.

Feel free to reach out to talk through my email at [x]@princeton.edu where [x]=alzhang. I’m also very active in the GPU MODE community and co-lead the GPU programming leaderboard!

Right now, I’m particularly interested in systems for/in ML, scaling and understanding language models, and applications of AI to the natural sciences!

I got into AI research because I wanted to design intelligent bots for video games when I was younger:

• I first started programming by making Android games in Java.
• I used to make and sell PC games, one of which was mildly successful (~100k+ players). UE4 unfinished example.
• My favorite games of all time are Xenoblade Chronicles and Team Fortress 2.