Zhe Zhang

Machine learning for real control rooms · SLAC

project2021–2025

Badger

ML optimization for accelerator control rooms, adopted at 7+ facilities.

project2025–

Otter

A Claude Code agent for the control room: it writes the tuning routine, you approve, Badger runs it.

research2025–

DAMA-BAX & mpBAX

Storage-ring sextupole design learned one tracked particle at a time, with 40 times fewer tracking simulations than NSGA-II.

project2025–2026

RAG chatbot for research groups

Plug-and-play research assistant, evaluated on every answer.

project2019–2021

Teeport

Break the wall between optimization algorithms and problems.

research2019–2021

MG-GPO

A Gaussian process decides which bred candidates the live SPEAR3 ring gets to measure.

research2021–2022

RCDS-S

An optimizer for a drifting ring that only takes steps likely to stay under a line set in advance.

research2023–2024

CoAD

Label-free anomaly detection from coincident signals across subsystems.

research2023–2025

Single-shot policy

Straight from what the sensors see to the knob settings, trained without a single optimal action.

research2020–2022

UED beam diagnostics with CNNs

A small CNN that reads each electron shot's pointing and energy jitter straight off its diffraction pattern.

research2024

ReconNN

One forward pass instead of 500 gradient steps, for neutrino event reconstruction.

project2026–

quantecho

Self-hosted full-stack platform with a Python backtest lab.

project2025–

BigWaves Pattern Inspector

What happens after the market drops? An event-study tool, live 12+ months.

design2026

Integrity Deck · 草木本心

54 cards designed with AI, shipped as one 84 KB page.

project2017–2019

Mixed-reality surgical navigation

One CT scene in mixed reality, shared by every headset and registered to the body.

research2011–2017

Photocathode & injector codes, etc.

A PhD asking how low a photocathode gun can push emittance, and the four codes it took.