Xingjian Zhang
Ann Arbor · 2025

Xingjian Zhang 张行健

I train and evaluate LLM that reasons over hard-to-verify tasks.

role
4th-year Ph.D. · University of Michigan
internship
Google DeepMind ×2 · Meta Superintelligence Labs details ↓
status
Open to Late 2026 to Early 2027 Full Time

Research Internship

Meta Superintelligence Labs

Muse Product Post-Training

  • Co-developed steering mechanisms for agent rollouts, including reflection, plan-and-execute, and adaptive replanning; migrated experimentation to a controlled white-box sandbox for reproducible iteration.
  • Contributed personalized-research SFT data to Muse Spark post-training; the trained model improved by 3pp across three internal agent benchmarks.

Google DeepMind

Gemini Post-Training

  • Curated a benchmark linking YouTube Shorts to real-world events to evaluate video grounding through web search.
  • Contributed agentic RL and multimodal-input support to simply ↗, a minimal JAX codebase used broadly within DeepMind with 500+ GitHub stars.

Google DeepMind

Gemini Post-Training

  • Proposed GPU/TPU-friendly adaptive Transformer layer skipping based on input-sequence complexity.
  • Matched full-compute performance on language and sequential user modeling at 60% compute; integrated the method into TensorFlow Recommenders. paper ↗

Education

Ph.D. in Information Science

University of Michigan, School of Information · advised by Prof. Qiaozhu Mei

Ann Arbor

B.S. in Computer Science; Minor in Mathematics

University of Michigan, EECS Department

Ann Arbor

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