Incoming Full-Time Researcher at the Enigma Project, Stanford University
About Me
Hi! My name is Kaiwen Bian and I am a 4th year undergraduate student at UC San Diego, as well as an incoming researcher at the Enigma Project, Stanford University. My research focuses on designing generalizable tools and systems for specific domains, particularly for embodied AI and computational neuroscience. Beyond this, I am also interested in investigating how to better use AI systems to build tools we can use.
I am fortunate to be advised by Talmo D. Pereira at the Salk Institute, Scott W. Linderman at Stanford University, and Yusu Wang and Gal Mishne at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. Outside of my academic life, I enjoy skateboarding 🛹, surfing 🏄, and immersing myself in the serenity of the natural world 🌲
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Research Experience
Full-Time Researcher
Building brain foundation models.
Research Intern
Developing computationally efficient deep RL imitation systems (Mimic-MJX) for bio-mechanically realistic agents, discovering topological structure in embodied behavior spaces (TopoMimic), and building code-to-action embodied agents (Code2Act).
Visiting Research Scholar
Creating latent dynamical models for planning and generating bio-mechanically realistic behaviors using deep state-space modeling methods (MimicDyn). Co-advised on the Code2Act embodied agent project from Salk.
B.S. Data Science · B.S. Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience
Graph compositional abstraction for molecular generation (MOSAIC) and topological analysis of embodied agent behaviors. Co-advised on the TopoMimic project from Salk.