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Past research and projects that I have worked on and am currently working on.

Embodied Agents & RL Computational Neuroscience Representation, Geometry, and Topology Generative Models Language Models & Multi-Agent Applied Data Science
MIMIC-MJX

MIMIC-MJX: Neuromechanical Emulation of Animal Behavior

C. Zhang, Y. Yang, A. Sirbu, E.J. Leonardis, E. Abe, E. Warnberg, D.E. Aldarondo, A. Lee, A. Prasad, J. Foat, K. Bian, J. Park, R. Bhatt, H. Saunders, A. Nagamori, A.R. Thanawalla, K.W. Huang, F. Plum, H. Beck, S.W. Flavell, D. Labonte, B.A. Richards, B.W. Brunton, E. Azim, B.P. Ölveczky, T.D. Pereira

Submitted to Nature Methods (2026)

Embodied Agents & RL Computational Neuroscience

Beyond Flat Walks: Compositional Abstraction for Autoregressive Graph Generation

K. Bian, A.H. Yang, A. Parviz, G. Mishne, Y. Wang

Submitted to Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026

Generative Models Representation, Geometry, and Topology
TopoMimic

Shaped by What's Missing: Topological Invariance Simplification Discovers Behavioral Transitions

K. Bian, E.J. Leonardis, Y. Yang, C. Zhang, Y. Wang, T.D. Pereira

Submitted to Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps), NeurIPS 2026 Workshop

Representation, Geometry, and Topology Computational Neuroscience
Steering Embodied Behavior from Any Discrete Codes

Steering Embodied Behavior from Any Discrete Codes

K. Bian, C.Y. Zhang, Y. Yang, A. Sirbu, A. Jha, K. Buchanan, E.J. Leonardis, B.P. Ölveczky, S.W. Linderman, T.D. Pereira

Accepted at Simulated Bodies: Whole-Body Biomechanical Models (SimBodies) Conference 2026

Embodied Agents & RL Computational Neuroscience Generative Models

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