Michael Chen

Hi! I'm a junior at CMU studying CS and concentrating in machine learning. In my free time, I like playing baseball, lifting weights, and playing jazz trombone. This summer I interned at Amazon in Austin.

Some things I've worked on:

• Not-Just-Scaling Laws: Towards a Better Understanding of the Downstream Impact of Language Model Design Decisions (EMNLP 2025)
• Tetris bot for 17-740. I added 1-step lookahead with beam search to a heuristic algorithm and added some speed optimizations to reach >20M lines cleared.
• Baseball batting simulator in Unreal Engine 4
• Eye health app with >18k downloads
• Curriculum-planning tool for my high school
• Toy song-sharing app