Adam Kamel
Software Engineering· University of WaterlooHi, I'm Adam, a software engineering student in my second year at Waterloo. I like to split my time between building applied AI systems, and working on ML research. Right now I'm co-leading a robotics RL project with Wat.AI, and also trying to teach an agent to play Minecraft. I'm always open to new projects, collaborations and good conversations!
AI Engineer @ b(x) Theory
May 2026 - Aug 2026Built the document intelligence and financial RAG platform behind a restructuring analytics product
Technical Project Manager @ Wat.AIDesign Team
May 2026 - PresentLeading WorldFold, a project exploring world models and reinforcement learning for robotic cloth manipulation
Machine Learning Engineer @ WatStreetDesign Team
Dec 2025 - Aug 2026Trained statistical and deep learning classifiers to identify market regimes in noisy financial time series
Software Engineering Intern @ Workbench
May 2025 - Sep 2025Developed AI agent integrations and improved natural language processing systems
Emergent World Beliefs: Exploring Transformers in Stochastic Games
Adam Kamel et al. · NeurIPS 2025 MechInterp Workshop · EMNLP 2025 BlackboxNLP Workshop
Explores whether transformers build internal world models of games they can't fully observe. Generated 3M+ simulated poker games to train a GPT-2-style model on hand data, then probed its internal activations, recovering hand strength with 98% accuracy and showing the model encodes its own win probability (r = 0.59), information it was never shown during training.
RSCE: Training-Free Residual Stream Encoding for Persistent Context Amortization
Adam Kamel, Eric Xu · KnowFM Workshop @ ACL 2026
A training-free method that compresses long documents into reusable vector representations. Benchmarked against leading compression baselines on QA and code tasks across 7B–70B models, RSCE retains 60–81% of answer quality while using 99% fewer tokens, and the paper identifies why quality drops when it does.
Minecraft RL Combat Agent
Self-play RL agent that beats 99% of human players in Minecraft sword duels
Pufferfish
Chess engine that placed 3rd overall out of 75 teams at ChessHacks