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Zhangzhi Xiong (熊章智)

ShanghaiTech Computer Science Undergraduate Student

Research Interests: FinTech, with a focus on Quantitative Finance and AI-powered Financial Applications using LLMs and Agents

About Me

Welcome! I am currently a Junior student majoring in Computer Science at ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学). I was also a visiting student at the College of Engineering (COE), UC Berkeley, during the first semester of junior year.

I've been working in the fields of 3D Computer Viison, Time Series, Probabilistic Modeling and AI4Science during my research intern experience over the past two years. Now, my research interests focus on FinTech, and I'm thrilled to apply frontier AI technologies to finance.

I name my Github repository "csrookie" because my favorite motto is Steve Jobs': "Stay hungry, stay foolish." In the field of AI research, I will always be a rookie and will never stop learning and exploring with a hungry and foolish heart.

Research Output
  • [arXiv, Preprint] Evolution-Aware MSA Reasoning for Subsampling via Factor Graphs [PDF]
    Zhangzhi Xiong*, Minzhang Li*, Haotian Yu*, Sixian Shen, Kexin Zhang, Mingrui Li, Jie Zheng, Kewei Tu, Jingyi Yu *Equal Contribution.
    2026
  • [arXiv, Preprint] Exploring the Potential of Probabilistic Transformer for Time Series Modeling: A Report on the ST-PT Framework [PDF]
    Zhangzhi Xiong, Haoyi Wu, You Wu, Shuqi Gu, Kan Ren, Kewei Tu
    2026
  • [ICML, 2026] ConTSG-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Conditional Time Series Generation [PDF] [Code] [Leaderboard]
    Shaocheng Lan, Shuqi Gu, Zhangzhi Xiong, Kan Ren
    2026
  • [Patent] General-purpose Dynamic Point Cloud Understanding Model and Multi-task Collaborative Optimization System
    (UniHPC: A Universal Model for Human-Centric Point Cloud Understanding)
    Yiteng Xu, Haoyu Wu, Zhangzhi Xiong, Shenshuo Yao, Leshi Li, Xinge Zhu, Yuexin Ma
    (Publication No.CN120412083A; 3rd contribution; Patent owner: Ph.D. Student Yiteng Xu from 4DVLab)
    2025
Honors & Awards
  • AI Honor Class, ShanghaiTech University 2024-2027
  • ShanghaiTech University Outstanding Student 2023-2024
  • ShanghaiTech University Outstanding Student 2024-2025
  • Second Prize, The Chinese Mathematics Competitions (Non-math major group), Shanghai Region 2024.12
  • Second Prize, Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), Shanghai Region (Team Leader) 2025.11
Skills
Languages
Python C/C++ MATLAB Markdown LaTeX
Frameworks
PyTorch Git Linux Conda Docker
English
CET-6 (613) CET-4 (616) TOFEL (101)
Selected Course Projects

Halma Game Agent

2025.05 - 2025.06
Course Project for Artificial Intelligence, Supervisor: Prof. Sibei Yang
  • Deployed classical AI agent algorithms (Minimax with Alpha-Beta Pruning) for the Halma game.
  • Implemented Neural Approximate Q-learning (DQN) to enhance the agent's decision-making capabilities.

FP-GNN++: Towards Accurate Molecule Property Classification

2025.05 - 2025.06
Course Project for Introduction to Machine Learning, Supervisor: Prof. Yujiao Shi
  • Modeled chemical bond information as additional inductive bias for better molecular representation.
  • Designed Cross-Attention mechanisms and Multi-head GNNs for effective multi-feature fusion.
  • Conducted extensive ablation studies to verify the effectiveness of the novel structural designs.

UC Berkeley Computer Vision Course Projects Personal Gallery

2025.08 - 2025.12
Course Projects for Computer Vision in UC Berkeley, Supervisor: Prof.Angjoo Kanazawa, Prof.Alexei Efros
  • Images and pictures are lovely! It's also important and beneficial to develop the passion to introduce and demonstrate our work to others in the community! - A.A.Efros
  • Codes are not made public due to course regulations.

Explorations on Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation Curriculum

2025.10 - 2025.12
Course Project for Deep Learning in UC Berkeley, Supervisor: Prof.Anant Sahai, Prof.Gireeja Ranade
  • Conducting free explorations on factors that affect Catastrophic Forgetting Phenomenon.
  • Design curriculum accordingly to mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting and then attempt on verifying validicity of curriculum transfer.

Extreme Volatility Warning under Label Scarcity via Multi-Source Anomaly Fusion

2026.03 - 2026.05
Course Project for Data Mining, Supervisor: Prof.Haipeng Zhang

🎉 Paper is awarded an Oral Presentation at the ECML-PKDD MIDAS Workshop! It's a pity that we can't make it to Naples, Italy, to participate and have to give up our submission.

  • Extreme Volatility formulation and Warning via machine learning & media source impact analysis.

Course Notes & Resources

This website also serves as my personal knowledge base. I have compiled some useful and detailed notes, reviews, and resources for various CS and Math courses at ShanghaiTech. Feel free to drop by!

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