Hello, I'm Shiyang. 👋

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Professor David van Dijk's lab at Yale University. My work lies at the intersection of Large Language Models, Deep Learning, and Agent Systems.

Prior to Yale, I earned my M.S. from Columbia University and hold a B.Sc. in Statistics from the University of British Columbia. My research focuses on developing foundation models and agentic systems to unravel the complexities of biological systems.

🔥 News

2024.09
Started Ph.D. journey at Yale University in Prof. David van Dijk's lab! 🎉
2024.05
Graduated with M.S. from Columbia University. 🎓

📖 Education

Yale University

2024 - Present
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. David van Dijk

Columbia University

2022 - 2024
M.S. in Operation Research

University of British Columbia

2018 - 2022
B.Sc. in Statistics

🌟 Selected Publications

Intelligence at the Edge of Chaos

Shiyang Zhang, Aakash Patel, Syed A Rizvi, Nianchen Liu, Sizhuang He, Amin Karbasi, Emanuele Zappala, David van Dijk
arXiv preprint, 2024
A novel framework exploring the intersection of complexity theory and neural network dynamics.

Scaling Large Language Models for Next-Generation Single-Cell Analysis

Syed Asad Rizvi*, Daniel Levine*, Aakash Patel*, Shiyang Zhang*, Eric Wang, Sizhuang He, David Zhang, et al.
bioRxiv, 2025
Developing foundation models specifically designed for single-cell genomics data analysis.

RankAdaptor: Hierarchical Dynamic Low-Rank Adaptation for Structural Pruned LLMs

Changhai Zhou*, Shijie Han*, Shiyang Zhang*, Shichao Weng, Zekai Liu, Cheng Jin
arXiv preprint, 2024
Novel approach for efficient fine-tuning of large language models through dynamic rank adaptation.

📝 All Publications

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