The end of the road

Thanks for walking with me

You found everything. This is the hidden note: put a secret here — an unreleased song, a photo, a thank-you.

Deimos
AI Research · Engineer · Musician

Hi, this is
Deimos

I train foundation models at Apple.

Welcome to my journey.
About

Between the lab and the stage

I'm a research engineer improving foundation models, with a focus on agentic RL post-training. I enjoy doing research at the frontier of human knowledge, and I like it even more when it makes an impact in real-world products.

Curiosity drives me day to day. Humanity and kindness are what I hope is left when the work is done. I believe AI should bring us closer and add warmth to the world.

Outside of work, I'm a musician. I play keys in a pop band called ABT. We were the first Bay Area band to ever perform at Anime Expo, the largest anime convention in North America.

In my spare time, I enjoy reading, playing video games, composing and making piano covers, and hunting for good food.

Research

I'm interested in bridging frontier research and real-world applications at scale, and in pointing that work toward a larger positive social impact. My experience spans post-training infrastructure, RL, recursive self-improvement, and multimodal intelligence.

Selected papers
2026 · Agent reasoning

RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic RL

Why agentic RL reasoning collapses into templates, and how to catch it.

PaperCodeICML '26 Oral
2026 · Agent efficiency

BAGEN: Are LLM Agents Budget-Aware?

Do LLM agents know what a task will cost them?

2025 · RL training infra

RAGEN: Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn RL

One of the first open-source infrastructures for multi-turn RL training.

2024 · Foundation model

Foundation Models for Boolean Logic

The first foundation model for Boolean logic.

Projects

This part is under construction. Code agents are reshaping how engineering gets done, and I'm busy building the next big thing.

Music

Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.Friedrich Nietzsche
01

Composing

Soundtracks and re-arrangements I wrote.

BattleFor my Global Game Jam 2025 game
Castle in the Sky, reimaginedA re-arrangement of the Laputa theme
MiseryAmbient game soundtrack
StarAmbient soundtrack
02

On stage

Keys in After-school Bay Time, a J-pop band in the Bay Area.

Watch on YouTube ↗
03

Covers

I was classically trained. Some repertoire I keep coming back to.

Chopin · Nocturne in C-sharp minorLive, SFCM piano recital
Get in touchdeimosgin@gmail.com

Happy to talk about research, startup ideas, music, games, cat videos, or good food :P
I'm always open to meeting new people and helping where I can.

Image credits