Antong Zhang.
Brown University
I study Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Brown. I’m interested in building AI and machine learning systems for reliable scientific inference, especially from imperfect evidence. I firmly believe that AI’s greatest promise lies in helping us understand the world and push the boundaries of science.
My work brings together scientific inference, probabilistic modeling, and learning across domains. My interests span Earth system science, biomedicine, robotics, and how scientific knowledge develops.
I also enjoy and ; one fuels my adrenaline, and the other keeps me grounded.
Computer Science · Brown ’27
antong_zhang(at)brown(dot)edu
The CV and expanded project details are available by invitation.
News
Our paper BEACON: Cross-Domain Co-Training of Generative Robot Policies via Best-Effort Adaptation was accepted to NeurIPS 2026!
I started the CHIP Summer Internship in Computational Health Informatics and AI.
Our CO₂ inversion project for OCO-2 received a NASA HEC grant.
Publications 06
Papers & preprints- 2026
BEACON: Cross-Domain Co-Training of Generative Robot Policies via Best-Effort Adaptation
Antong Zhang, Han Qi, Heng Yang
- 2026
Hierarchical Data Selection via Manifold Coverage and Sparse Feature Coverage in LLM Post-training
P. Sun, Y. Yang, Antong Zhang, et al.
arXiv preprintPaper ↗ - 2026
Global Particulate Pollution Research Reflects Economic Capacity More Than Pollution Burden
J. Yang, Antong Zhang, X. Jian, et al.
Communications SustainabilityPaper ↗ - 2025
Prediction of Ambient PM₂.₅ Chemical Components in Southern California Using Machine Learning
J. Yang, S. Hasheminassab, M. Franklin, Antong Zhang, et al.
Atmospheric Environment: XPaper ↗ - 2025
SpecMol: A Spectroscopy-Grounded Foundation Model for Multi-Task Molecular Learning
S. Shen, J. Xie, Z. Yang, Antong Zhang, et al.
arXiv preprintPaper ↗ - 2023
Forecasting the Progression of Human Civilization on the Kardashev Scale through 2060 with a Machine Learning Approach
Antong Zhang, J. Yang, Y. Luo, et al.
Scientific ReportsPaper ↗
RESEARCH
Research over time
What I’m working on now,
and the questions that brought me here.