Sunny Zhang

Sunny Zhang

I study Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Toronto, St. George campus. My interests lie in machine learning, sequential decision making, and mathematical optimization.

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Education

2025 — 2029

University of Toronto

Honours BSc, Double Major in Computer Science and Mathematics

Experience

Jun 2026 — Sep 2026

Algoverse

Researcher

Publications

  • Language–Action Decoupling: Speech as a Weak Proxy for Action in LLM Hierarchies

    Zhang et al.·Accepted to four NeurIPS 2026 workshops: IAB, AIWILD, VerifyAgents, SocialAgent

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Projects

  • Tiny Society

    A multi-agent simulator that turns a user-authored world and cast into a seven-day narrative.

    • Calculations & metrics (PDF)

    website·code

  • LaunchPilot

    An AI launch assistant built in 36 hours, running four agents from market research to approved outreach.

    • Winner — Backboard.io: Best Use of Backboard
    • Winner — SPUR: Build a Real Canadian Startup (Top 3)
    • Devpost (link)

    website·code

  • Feedback or Annealing?

    A preregistered study of adaptive state aggregation on a 9,261-state MDP, finding no consistent benefit from feedback.

    code

  • Parallel State Aggregation

    A threaded benchmark of exact value iteration against adaptive state aggregation on maze MDPs up to a million states, where value iteration wins at every size tested.

    code

  • Theft Mapping Around UofT St. George

    A heatmap of Toronto Police theft-over-$5,000 incidents around the UofT St. George campus, built after my own laptop was stolen there.

    website·code