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

Embodied Agents & RL Computational Neuroscience Representation & 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

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 NeurIPS 2026

Representation & Topology Computational Neuroscience

Code to Action

Emergent Motor Programs from Discrete Bottlenecks in Whole-Body Biomechanical Control

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

Accepted at Simulated Bodies (SimBodies) Conference (2026)

Embodied Agents & RL Computational Neuroscience Generative Models

MOSAIC

Beyond Flat Walks: Compositional Abstraction for Autoregressive Molecular Generation

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

In preparation for NeurIPS 2026

Generative Models Representation & Topology

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