Ryan Engel

Ryan Engel

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Biography

I am an M.S. student in computer science at Stony Brook University, where I also completed my B.S. in the same department. I am interested in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Quantitative Finance. As an undergraduate, I worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory with Dr. Gilchan Park on LLMs for protein behavior prediction, resulting in a publication at BioNLP @ ACL 2024. Currently, I'm exploring ML applications in quantitative finance under the guidance of Professors Pawel Polak and Yifan Sun, with recent work published at ACM ICAIF 2025.

Publications

Scaling CAEs Paper

Scaling Conditional Autoencoders for Portfolio Optimization via Uncertainty-Aware Factor Selection

Ryan Engel, Yu Chen, Pawel Polak, & Ioana Boier

ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), November 2025

ACM ICAIF 2025

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BioNLP 2024 Paper

Evaluating Large Language Models for Predicting Protein Behavior under Radiation Exposure and Disease Conditions

Ryan Engel & Gilchan Park

BioNLP Workshop at ACL Conference, August 2024

ACL BioNLP 2024

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Work Experience

NVIDIA Corporation

Software Engineer Intern

May 2025 – September 2025

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Machine Learning Research Intern

June 2023 – August 2024