Yunkai Zhang

Yunkai Zhang

PhD Candidate

UC Berkeley

Professional Summary

Yunkai Zhang is a final-year PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, affiliated with BAIR and advised by Prof. Zeyu Zheng. He works on time series (forecasting, multimodal QA, foundation models), reinforcement learning (AIOps, safe RL), and recommender systems. His research is supported by NSF-GRFP. Outside of work, he plays all kinds of sports (but being good at none), trading stocks, and mentoring the next generation of AI talent. Feel free to reach out if you are looking for collaborations!

Education

PhD at BAIR

UC Berkeley

BS Mathematics

UC Santa Barbara (College of Creative Studies)

BS Computing

UC Santa Barbara (College of Creative Studies)

Interests

Time Series Reinforcement Learning Recommender Systems ML for Systems
📚 My Research

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