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 Conditional Autoencoders for Portfolio Optimization via Uncertainty-Aware Factor Selection
ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), November 2025
ACM ICAIF 2025
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Evaluating Large Language Models for Predicting Protein Behavior under Radiation Exposure and Disease Conditions
BioNLP Workshop at ACL Conference, August 2024
ACL BioNLP 2024
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