Charles Zhang

Post-bacc Researcher at Harvard University

About

I'm a post-bacc researcher at the Ölveczky Lab, where I use deep reinforcement learning to model rodent motor control and learning. I did my undergrad at UMass Amherst, where I majored in Computer Science and minored in Philosophy.

News

April 2025: I'm starting a PhD in Computer Science at Harvard in Fall 2025!
March 2025: I presented a poster at COSYNE 2025 titled "A GPU-Accelerated Pipeline for Imitating Animal Motor Control"!

Research

AI & Embodied Intelligence

I want to design novel systems to imbue AI with the adaptive embodied intelligence seen in animals, focusing on adaptive continuous control, continual learning, and autonomous behavior.

Neural Networks & Neuroscience

I want to leverage deep learning to model animal intelligence and behavior in interpretable ways to understand how the brain works through computational abstractions.

Contact

charleszhang[at]fas[dot]harvard[dot]edu