Zimeng Lyu

Zimeng Lyu

Ph.D. Candidate

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science specializing in time series forecasting, AutoML, Neural Architecture Search, and Transformers. Delivered $7.3M in power plant cost savings and beat stock market index with evolved RNNs. Proficient in C++, Python, PyTorch, Docker, Spark, and distributed computing for large-scale AI solutions. Serve as course designer and instructor for a graduate core course and graduate student research mentor.

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Travis Desell.

Email: zimenglyu@mail.rit.edu

Research Areas

Time Series Forecasting

Online and Offline Time Series Forecasting, Stock Return Predictions

Neural Architecture Search

NeuroEvolution, Recurrent Neural Networks

Minimally Supervised Learning

Self Organizing Maps, Topological Projections

Latest News

April 2025

Paper Accepted at IJCNN 2025

March 2025

Paper Accepted at GECCO 2025

January 2025

EvoAPPs Paper Acceptance