Michael R. Zeng is a doctoral candidate in Mathematics and is Acting Director of the UW Math AI Lab. He is interested in Schubert calculus, equivariant intersection theory, and moduli theory. 

He was a recipient of 2025 Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship for the project "Deriving Orthographic Data from Classical Japanese Texts with Machine-Learning Methods," which he co-led with Paul S. Atkins and Herman Chau.