Robert Zhou

Compounding.

Hi, I'm Robert. I build software, AI models, and games, and study computational biology at Colby. I obsess over making things that are fast, real, and keep working on their own.

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  • B.A. Computational Biology, Colby College (May 2029) · Pulver Science Scholar
  • USABO Recognition of Academic Excellence (Top 50 U.S.) & Semifinalist (#27 of 11,900)
  • US Medicine & Disease Olympiad (USMDO) Silver · #21 of 1,235 (15 countries)
  • Maine · California · Boston
  • English & Mandarin

Now

  • Software Engineering & AI Intern (Sole Engineer) · Parsifal Corporation — Enterprise OCR-to-ERP, MCP & .NET 8 billing (~$600K/yr audited)
  • Contributor · BH Game Studio — Multi-agent Roblox Studio MCP pipeline · 24.4M+ visits & ~3K peak concurrent players
  • Investor Relations Analyst · Solus Ventures — LP prospecting & investor pipeline across family offices, HNWIs & institutions
  • Management Intern · Staff Writer · Moledao & The Colby Financial Review — University & student-community partnerships · finance writing
  • Independent ML, Systems & Forecasting · Chognt & Open Source — 8B–14B LLM post-training (SFT / DPO / GRPO / GRAFT), browser agents & OSINT markets

Previously

  • Intern · NeuralSeek — Enterprise AI agent workflows & C-suite technical sales
  • Bioinformatics & Wet-Lab Research Intern · USC Mangul Lab · MDIBL · University Lab Partners — Sepsis transcriptomics (0.74 AUC, 772 samples), antibody benchmarking & mammalian cell culture
  • Tournament Director & Content Lead · Creator · Int'l Biology Bowl · ARBC · @the.lab67 — 4,000+ participants across 28 countries & 61K+ followers (1.9M likes)

§ I Selected Work Systems & benchmarks

Additional Systems & Research

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§ IV Outside of work Trails & mountains

Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, JapanAug 2026
Acadia National Park, MEJan 2026
San Gabriel Mountains, CASep 2024
San Bernardino National Forest, CAAug 2024
Angeles National Forest, CASep 2024
Lake Tahoe, CAAug 2022

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