I'm Ryan, passionate about exploring the frontiers of AI technology, with a focus on building intelligent agents and evaluation systems. I love creating software that pushes the boundaries of what's possible and changes the world.

Currently working on OpenAlita and diving deep into AI agent research.

💼 What I've worked on:

• OpenAlita: Building an AI agent framework that pushes the limits of intelligent systems and autonomous decision-making. Inspired by the incredible work of the Alita team.
  URL: github.com/ryantzr1/OpenAlita

• Agent Research: Exploring cutting-edge AI agent capabilities, including reasoning, tool use, and multi-modal interactions. Following exciting open-source projects like:

  • Alita: Agent that autonomously creates MCP tools.
  • OpenManus: General-purpose AI assistant.
  • LightEval: Lightweight evaluation framework for language models.

• EvalHub (Discontinued): Built a platform to help researchers and developers discover evaluation metrics for AI models, streamlining the evaluation process. Stepped away to climb mountains in Europe!
  URL: github.com/ryantzr1/evalhub

• FRIDAY Conversational AI Agent: A platform for knowledge base understanding, training, and customer service. Won 1st Place (AI/ML Category) at NUS Fintech Hackathon 2023. Also somehow got paying customers out of it.

📚 Favourite Research Papers

• "One-Shot Learning of Object Categories" by Fei-Fei et al.: Pioneering work on learning new object categories from a single example.
• "Attention Is All You Need" by Vaswani et al.: Fundamental paper introducing the Transformer model, revolutionizing natural language processing.
• "A Feature Integration Theory of Attention" by Treisman and Gelade: Influential theory on how humans integrate different features of objects to focus attention.

⚡ Fun Fact When I'm not immersed in AI and Deep Learning, I enjoy learning new languages, exploring different cultures, and cheering for the Golden State Warriors as a huge fan!

Feel free to explore my repositories, and let's connect if you share similar interests or have exciting ideas to discuss!