Major Consultants
Jikai Jin
Stanford ICME PhD. Major consultant for the reading group.
Peking University backgroundStanford ICME PhDRobert and Tootwo
Anonymous MIT EECS PhD and UCB stats/ml PhD contributor and advisor to the discussion group.
MIT EECS PhDSome Best paper awardZihan Wang
A PhD researcher at Northwestern University. Oral paper writing consultant.
ICML 2026 OralDeepSeekCommunity Background
The community currently includes members with experience at Jump Trading, JQ Investments, DeepMind, Meta, AlphaGrep, Google, Citadel Securities, Kimi / Moonshot AI, Qwen, and Tencent Hunyuan, Deepseek. Disclaimer: this is a learning seminar, not networking event, no commercial usage, no compilance issue.
The community also includes contributors from MathHeart and Mochi(main instructor) community.
Members are encouraged to introduce themselves and share work related to LLMs, learning theory, post-training, verification, reasoning, AI systems, OPD, post-training harnesses, or quantitative research.
Open Contributors
Contributors may help with reading notes, paper selection, website maintenance, replication code, seminar organization, and research discussions.
To be listed on the course page, send your GitHub account and a short research direction to t.zhang8@columbia.edu.
Suggested display format: School — Research Direction — Name.