Justin Zhang

--Math and CS @ MIT | Incoming QT Intern at Virtu Financial | Multisensory Intelligence Group

Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States

About

Student at MIT interested in math and CS/Machine Learning/AI, currently with a particular interest in researching multimodal intelligence. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xQzTVn4AAAAJ

Experience

  • Incoming Quantitative Trading Intern at Virtu Financial
    Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    Summer 2026, Client Market Making Desk

  • Multisensory Intelligence Group Researcher (Joint, MIT CSAIL + MIT Media Lab) at MIT EECS
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    - Paper accepted to ICLR 2026 Main Track: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=5sAsjb2jCb - Project done under mentorship of Megan Tjandrasuwita (MIT CSAIL) and Hengzhi (Harry) Li (MIT Media Lab) under Principal Investigator Paul Liang - Currently researching using Tree Pruning RL methods for puzzle agents

  • Software Engineer Intern at Ornn
    Jan 2026 - Jan 2026 · 1 mo

    January 2026. Building financial exchange and infrastructure for compute: https://www.ornnai.com/

  • Technical AI Safety Researcher at METR
    Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos

    - Conducted AI research into measuring threat model relevant AI capabilities using scalable evaluation methodologies under mentorship of Nikola Jurkovic from METR for black box hypothesis testing. - Won 1st Place Prize from Impact Research Initiative, 1.5K award for project. - Published blog post on LessWrong on research (joint work with Daniel Wu and David Zhang): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fFuwW2nE5rZNSFQmY/blackboxquery-bbq-bench-measuring-hypothesis-formation-and-1

  • Force Factor (Boston, Massachusetts, United States · On-site)
    • Machine Learning Engineer Intern
      May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

      Invited back as full time summer intern after successful completion of Co-op

    • Machine Learning Engineer Co-op
      Dec 2024 - May 2025 · 6 mos

      Winter and Spring AI/ML Co-op at top America Health and Superfoods Brand: https://forcefactor.com/blogs/news/force-factor-becomes-1-superfoods-brand-in-america. Using Machine Learning for Product Analytics Forecasting. Worked part time during the school year.