Ryan M. Engel

Biography

Ryan M. Engel

I am a Ph.D. student of computer science at Stony Brook University, where I completed my B.S. and M.S. in the same department. My research explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and computational geometry, and I am currently advised by Professor Xianfeng David Gu.

I am a Ph.D. student of computer science at Stony Brook University, currently advised by Professor Xianfeng David Gu.

Work Experience

Simudyne Ltd.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

June 2026 – Present

NVIDIA Corporation

Software Engineer Intern

May 2025 – September 2025

AlphaBeta Hedge Fund

Quantitative Research Intern

August 2024 – May 2025

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Machine Learning Research Intern

June 2023 – August 2024

Publications

MCGD 2026 Paper

Geometric Optimal Transport for Generative Modeling without Hallucinations

Ryan Engel, Yazheng Chen, Ben Xin Gu, Shing-Tung Yau, & Xianfeng Gu

Mathematics, Computation and Geometry of Data, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1-36. International Press, 2025.

MCGD Vol. 5

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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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