Ryan Rong

I'm a freshman studying CS at Stanford University. I co-lead the Machine Learning Lab at Stanford ACM where we host school-wide events like the Puzzle Hunt. I'm also a student researcher at Stanford AI Lab interested in language models, 3D vision, and its intersection in medicine. Outside of academics, I enjoy performing in musicals with Stanford Ram's Head.

In high school, I competed in computing olympiads like USACO (Platinum), USA Biology Olympiad (Top 50). I also competed in FIRST Robotics (FRC) on team 5895 Peddie Robotics.

Email / CV / X / LinkedIn / GitHub / Google Scholar

Research

	Trace to Triumph: A Novel LLM-based Generative Optimization Approach for Atari Gaming Agents Amelia Kuang, Ryan Rong, Tom Yuan Poster Incorporated Trace to use LLMs to iteratively optimize agent code to play Atari Games. Achieves competitive performance with 750x fewer environment interactions, advised by PhD. Allen Nie Contributions are part of a work in proceedings at COLM 2025
	Long Range Weather Forecasting with Chunked-Sequence Diffusion James Qian, Andrew Ye, Ryan Rong Poster Accurately forecast weather variables like 2m temperature and achieved comparable performance against state-of-the-art models with only 1% of the dataset and 1% of the model size
	Automated bug generation in the era of large language models Ali Reza Ibrahimzada, Yang Chen, Ryan Rong, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand Paper Generate hard-to-repair bugs by transforming arbitrary code into multiple complex bugs
	Predicting the onset of Alzheimer's Disease using Electronic Health Records fairly across demographic groups Ryan Rong, Sajjad Fouladvand, Jonathan H. Chen Poster

Hackathons

PUSHPA - Pyro UAV System for High-risk Patrol and Alerting
TreeHacks 2025, Edge AI Challenge 2 Winner
Project Page

Theater

	Gaieties, Ram's Head, 2024 Spotify
	Legally Blonde, Peddie Theater, 2023

Design and source code by Jon Barron.