Tianlang (Jackie) Chen § 1 · ABOUT
TIANLANG (JACKIE) CHEN · PERSONAL WEBSITE § 1 · ABOUT
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Tianlang (Jackie) Chen

I'm a Data Science undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, after two years of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I work at the seam between machine learning and the sciences — genomic foundation models, LLMs for mobility incentive design, and AI-guided environmental sensing. The question I keep circling: how do we turn messy, high-dimensional scientific data into representations a model can actually reason with?
EDU B.S.E. Data Science, U-Michigan · PREV Mech. Eng., SJTU · AWARD MCM Honorable Mention · Email [email protected]
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Bio

"I care about reproducible pipelines and representations that make scientific data legible to models."

I'm an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, studying Data Science, after two years in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. My research spans machine learning and the sciences: building data-preparation and training pipelines for genomic foundation models (e.g. TSS-to-expression prediction), studying how large language models can support incentive design in shared-mobility systems, and developing AI-guided sensing for sparse, dynamic environmental systems such as the Great Lakes.

I like the engineering that makes research reproducible — leakage-safe feature pipelines, HDF5-backed data processing, HPC/Slurm training with bit-equivalent optimizations, and honest statistical validation. Before Michigan I interned at Mars Asia's Global IT Service Center on full-stack WeCom development with JavaScript, Node.js, and Vue.js, building internal tools and automation. I also build interactive web applets for materials-science data analytics.

I'm early in my undergraduate studies and looking for research questions I can go deep on — especially where careful representation and rigorous pipelines turn scientific data into something models can learn from. A fuller list of my work lives on my GitHub.

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Timeline

2026
Began undergraduate research at U-Michigan across genomic foundation models, LLM-based mobility incentive design, and environmental AI sensing.
RESEARCH
2025
Transferred to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Data Science) after Mechanical Engineering at SJTU; MCM/COMAP Honorable Mention.
U-MICHIGAN
2023
Began undergraduate studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Mechanical Engineering).
SJTU
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Selected experience

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U-Michigan research
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LLM for Incentive Design in Mobility Systems
Tianlang (Jackie) Chen

Investigating how large language models can support incentive-mechanism design for shared-mobility systems — ridesharing, transit incentives, and vehicle-sharing. Building LLM-guided workflows that generate and evaluate practical, interpretable incentive strategies, and studying how learning-based methods and optimization can be combined for data-driven transportation incentive design.

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U-Michigan research
in progress
AI-Guided Environmental Sensing & Adaptive Monitoring
Tianlang (Jackie) Chen

Developing AI-guided sensing for sparse, dynamic Great Lakes environmental systems under limited sensor coverage and seasonal variability. Builds reproducible workflows for data ingestion, baseline reconstruction, uncertainty quantification, and visualization, and compares random, grid-based, and uncertainty-aware sensor-placement and adaptive-sampling strategies — producing heatmaps, uncertainty maps, and placement recommendations for downstream deployment.

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