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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

Code to Action: Motor Programs from Discrete Syllables in Whole-Body Biomechanical Control

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

Beyond Flat Walks: Compositional Abstraction for Autoregressive Graph Generation

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

In preparation for 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, E. Azim, B.P. Ölveczky, Y. Wang, T.D. Pereira

In preparation for Conference of Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Data Science (TAG-DS) 2026

Representation, Geometry, and Topology Computational Neuroscience

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