My name is Zizhao Chen. Zizhao, Zoe, Chen, 陈梓昭, or 梓昭 are equally good with me.
I like {natural, formal, programming, mathematical} languages, because they help us formalize this mushy and magical process in our brain that we call reasoning.
Between 2018 and 2022, I studied Robotics in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto. Summer was when I had most fun:
- In 2022, I taught RL agents to reason abstractly under uncertainty with special automata called Reward Machines.
- In 2021, I played with Dex lang and programmed tree-based algorithms. It later evolved into my undergrad thesis.
- In 2020, I interned with YouTube as a STEP software engineer.
- In 2019, I breathed in the SOCAAR lab and studied how the oxidative components in the air affect our lungs.
I am grateful for the support and mentorship from Greg Evans, David Duvenaud, Sheila McIlraith, Xilin Liu and many others.
News and old news
2022
- Oct: Paper accepted in Deep RL Workshop at NeurIPS 2022.
- Aug: Manuscript accepted for live presentation for IEEE BioCAS 2022 Grand challenge on Respiratory Sound Classification.
- Jun: Graduated from the University of Toronto with BASc in Engineering Science and High Honour.
Facts that are not on my cv
- I put a battery in reverse and debugged for an hour. low-budget EV charger
- I helped program probably world’s least cost-efficient photocopier. portrait with an industrial robot
- I was certified for spending too much time on the Internet.