7 years after her PM2.5 project at 13, she's now doing AI research at Stanford

alfcnz · x · 2026-11-11

A heartwarming AI-circle story: 7 years ago, a 13-year-old middle schooler presented a summer project comparing classical feature engineering vs deep learning regression to estimate PM2.5 from daily images of Beijing, Shanghai, and Phoenix. She now studies CS and statistics at Stanford, researches with Hazy Research, and just got a paper into an ICML workshop.

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