About Me

Hi there! This is Fang, I'm a senior at University of Michigan, majoring in Mathematics and Statistics. During my undergraduate journey, it's my honor to work with Prof. Yiqiao Zhong and Prof. Yixin Wang regarding machine learning and LLMs.

Now, I work as a Research Assistant at Foreseer Group. My uitlimate goal is to become a Machine Learning Engineer.

Education

Academic
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    B.S. in Mathematics, B.S. in Statistics · 2023 – 2025

    GPA: 3.7/4.0

    Honors: University Honors (2024)

  • University of California, Santa Barbara
    Major in Applied Mathematics (Transfer Out) · 2021 – 2023

    GPA: 3.69/4.0

    Honors: Dean's Honors (4 Quarters)

Research Experience

Lab
  • Research Assistant @ Foreseer Group, University of Michigan
    Prof. Qiaozhu Mei · Aug 2025 – Present

    Reinforcement fine-tuning for behavioral foundation models (be.fm-8B). Model inference and evaluation on multiple behavioral benchmark tasks.

  • Research Assistant @ National University of Singapore
    Prof. Doudou Zhou · June 2025 – Oct 2025

    Built a multimodal classifier combining dermatology images and patient demographics via late fusion. Applied Group-DRO re-weighting across demographic subgroups to over-sample underrepresented groups.

  • Undergraduate Researcher @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Prof. Yiqiao Zhong · May 2025 – Aug 2025

    Developed an interpretability tool to diagnose reasoning failures in arithmetic tasks. Designed error attribution framework to compare failure patterns across Transformer architectures.

  • Undergraduate Researcher @ URPS, University of Michigan
    Prof. Yixin Wang · Dec 2024 – May 2025

    Implemented a self-improvement framework that substantially improve the length generalization ability of LLMs on arithemetic tasks. Poster presented at 2025 URPS and CSE Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Internships

Practice
  • Data Analyst @ AstraZeneca
    June 2023 – Aug 2023 · Shanghai

    Collaborated with Business Intelligence team to built Power BI dashboards to visualize sales KPIs. Identified and reconciled data discrepancies between Power BI system and local databases, documenting inconsistencies and generating weekly reports.