Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang

Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang

PhD Student at UT Austin

GDC 4.702B (4th floor, south wing)

I am a final year PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Professor Philipp Krähenbühl.

I was previously a research assistant at UC Berkeley, working with Professors Jitendra Malik and Amir Zamir. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelors of Science degree.

I am broadly interested in applying machine learning to biological applications.

Publications

Pearl

Pearl: A Foundation Model for Placing Every Atom in the Right Location

Genesis Research: Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang, contributor

PairMixer

Triangle Multiplication is All You Need for Biomolecular Structure Representations

Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang, Pranav Murugan, Daniel Jesus Diaz, Gianluca Scarpellini, Richard Strong Bowen, Nate Gruver, Adam Klivans, Philipp Kraehenbuehl, Aleksandra Faust, Maruan Al-Shedivat

ICLR 2026

Ambient Proteins

Ambient Proteins: Training Diffusion Models on Low Quality Structures

Giannis Daras*, Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang*, Krithika Ravishankar, William Daspit, Costis Daskalakis, Qiang Liu, Adam Klivans, Daniel J. Diaz

NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)

ISM

Distilling Structural Representations into Protein Sequence Models

Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang, Chengyue Gong, Yue Zhao, Philipp Krähenbühl, Adam R Klivans, Daniel J Diaz

ICLR 2025

Mutate Everything

Predicting a Protein's Stability under a Million Mutations

Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang, Daniel J Diaz, Adam R Klivans, Philipp Krähenbühl

NeurIPS 2023

Stability Oracle

Stability Oracle: A Structure-Based Graph-Transformer for Identifying Stabilizing Mutations

Daniel J Diaz, Chengyue Gong, Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang, James M Loy, Jordan Wells, David Yang, Andrew D Ellington, Alex Dimakis, Adam R Klivans

Nature Communications 2024

NMS Strikes Back NMS Strikes Back

NMS Strikes Back

Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang, Jang Hyun Cho, Xingyi Zhou, Philipp Krähenbühl

ArXiv 2022

Side-Tuning Side-Tuning

Side-Tuning: A Baseline for Network Adaptation via Additive Side Networks

Jeffrey O. Zhang, Alexander Sax, Amir Zamir, Leonidas Guibas, Jitendra Malik

ECCV 2020 (Spotlight)

Mid-Level Visual Priors Mid-Level Visual Priors

Learning to Navigate Using Mid-Level Visual Priors

Alexander Sax, Jeffrey O. Zhang, Bradley Emi, Amir Zamir, Silvio Savarese, Leonidas Guibas, Jitendra Malik

CoRL 2019 (Winner of CVPR 2019 Habitat Challenge)

StarCraft II StarCraft II

Modular Architecture for StarCraft II with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Dennis Lee*, Haoran Tang*, Jeffrey O. Zhang, Huazhe Xu, Trevor Darrell, Pieter Abbeel

AIIDE 2018