Michelle Zbizika
Michelle Zbizika
mzbizika at alum dot mit dot edu

Quantitative researcher at Vatic Investments, working on machine learning and AI agents for trading research. I graduated from MIT in 2025 with a B.S. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (6-4). Before Vatic, I did research in MIT CSAIL's Geometric Data Processing Group on neural networks for image rendering.

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Projects

I am interested in AI agents that automate parts of research, robot learning and embodied AI, and longevity.


Autonomous vehicle Autonomous Vehicle

MIT Robotics: Science and Systems
First place in competition

TL;DR: LiDAR particle-filter localization, pure-pursuit control and computer vision on a small autonomous vehicle.

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I built the autonomy stack for a small vehicle that drives a course on its own: a particle filter that localizes it from LiDAR scans, a pure-pursuit controller that tracks the path at speed, and a vision pipeline that reacts to what the camera sees. Our vehicle took first place in the final competition.

Neural rendering results Neural Rendering and Super-Resolution

MIT CSAIL, Geometric Data Processing Group
Undergraduate research (UROP), spring 2022

TL;DR: Fourier-based neural networks in PyTorch that predict pixels to render images at higher resolution.

AI Agents and Machine Learning for Trading Research

Vatic Investments
Quantitative researcher, 2025–present (intern, summer 2024)

TL;DR: LLM-agent systems and machine learning models for systematic trading research.

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