Building AI products & the research behind them.

Forrest Chai

CS, Math & HCI @ Northwestern. Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar '25. Applied AI Engineer at CrowdListen, working on business-context workflows for AI agents.

My research spans drug-drug interaction prediction with gated message passing neural networks and mathematical modeling competitions. In my free time, I photograph sunsets by Lake Michigan and chase the Milky Way. Always happy to chat.

Applied AI Engineer @ CrowdListen Regeneron STS Scholar '25 Northwestern '29

Selected Work

05 projects
Product 2025 - Present

CrowdListen

  • Applied AI Engineer at CrowdListen.
  • CrowdListen gathers social and customer signals across Reddit, Discord, X, TikTok, Slack, and support channels.
  • It structures themes, evidence, trends, severity, and recommended actions for AI agents.
Research 2024

GMPNN-CS++

The proposed GMPNN-CS++ model introduces a dual-contrasting sampling approach and self-attention mechanism for DDI prediction, achieving 97% overall accuracy.

Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar '25

Research 2023

Dandelion PDE Model

Finalist Award (Top ~7% globally) at HiMCM 2023. Constructed a system of four coupled PDEs modeling dandelion population dynamics with Fisher logistic growth, advection-diffusion, and Brownian dispersal.

HiMCM Finalist, top ~7% globally

Research 2023

MCM 2023 - Optimization

Global Meritorious Winner (Top ~10% among 11,296 teams). The only high school team to achieve this on Problem B. Built optimization models using simulated annealing, logistic models, and Euler Method.

Global Meritorious Winner, top ~10% among 11,296 teams

Research 2023

IMMC 2023 International

Advanced to Final Defense (Top 26 among 900+ teams) at IMMC Greater China International Round. Applied Entropy Weight and K-Means clustering for optimized land development strategy.

Advanced to Final Defense, top 26 among 900+ teams

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