Joseph Zhang

Mathematics & Computer Science — Stanford University

01 — About

  • Austin, TX → Palo Alto, CA
  • Thinking about AGI, quantum, and startups
  • Current interests include cutting hair, gastronomy, and design

02 — Experience

  • 2026 — Present Problem Writer, Stanford Math Tournament — authoring problems for a 3,000+ competitor global tournament.
  • Summer 2025 AI/ML Intern, Austin Capital Bank — time-series forecasting on 20M+ financial transactions.
  • Summer 2024 Junior Camp Counselor, Texas State Mathworks — mentoring middle-school students in number theory & combinatorics.

03 — Projects

  • Balloon Entropic Elasticity & Bifurcation

    2024 — 2025

    Modeled inflation and bifurcation of balloon–air systems under Prof. Rui Huang (UT Austin) and Prof. Zhigang Suo (Harvard), comparing Gent and Neo-Hookean material models. Presented at the 2025 CSME research conference (600+ attendees).

    • MATLAB
    • Modeling
    • Mechanics

  • Cyclic Base Ordering

    2022

    Studied cyclic base orderings in graph theory under Prof. Xiaofeng Gu (UWG). Built a C++ validator for triangular grid graphs, series compositions, and generalized theta graphs — cutting test time by 90%. Co-authored a peer-reviewed arXiv paper.

    • C++
    • Graph Theory
    • Research

  • Genomic Trait Prediction

    2022 — 2024

    Engineered and benchmarked CNN, RNN, and DanQ models on 1M+ SNP genomic samples for trait prediction, running on the Texas State LEAP2 HPC cluster under Dr. Xiaoxi Shen.

    • PyTorch
    • Deep Learning
    • Genomics

04 — On Repeat

05 — Contact