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zitong andrew chen

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hi! i'm a 3rd-year undergrad studying cse and math at uw. i like math, sports, running, music, and the one piece.

Food for thought:

what are all the perfect squares ending in 444?

Research

My research interests lie in some non-trivial subspace at the intersection of pure math and theoretical computer science (i don't know what im doing). Though I am particularly interested in computational number theory and its applications in tcs.

Efficient Auditing for Public-Key Infrastructure

26wi - present

Independent research • Advisor: Prof. Nirvan Tyagi

Finding an efficient way to help end-to-end messaging users detect if or when they get lied to.

Deep Learning for Number Theory

25au - present

Math AI Research Lab • Advisors: Junaid Hasan, Prof. Jarod Alper

Seeing how (shallow) transformers learn (modular) multiplication.

Publications: In preparation

Direct Reading Program - Analytic Number Theory

25wi

Washington Direct Reading Program (WDRP) • Mentor: Zawad Choudhury

Spent some time studying arithmetic functions, Dirichlet multiplication, among other things. Presented my findings, and met some goats.

Experience

Lead Teaching Assistant

24au - present

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science

Intro to Programming (CSE 122) and Hardware/Software Interface (CSE 351)

Software Engineering Intern

25su

Capital One

Engineered langgraph ai agent to automate controls monitoring

Coursework

All courses are taken at uw. Sometimes for a few select cs and math classes I will type out notes in LaTeX. Because they were typed live in lecture, you may find mistakes. Please email me if you do, and I may choose to ignore you. Also shoutout to my goat Duc Vu for the inspo (he does not know who i am and i am parasocial).

Computer Science

Mathematics