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General Information
Full Name | Yihua Zhang |
Date of Birth | 9th July |
Languages | Chinese, English, German |
Education
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2022 - now
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Michigan State University, USA
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Trustworthy Machine Learning
- Model Robustness (Adversarial Robustness, Backdoor Attacks, Out-of-Distribution, etc.)
- Model Fairness
- Machine Unlearning (Copyright infringement, Harmful Content Removal)
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Scalable Machine Learning
- Efficient Model (Model Pruning, Mixture-of-Expert, On-Device Training)
- Efficient Data (Data Distillation, Coreset Selection)
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Foundation Algorithm Development
- Bi-Level Optimization
- Zeroth-Order Optimization
- Invariant Risk Minimization
- Distribution Machine Learning
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Trustworthy Machine Learning
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2015-2019
B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Internship Experience
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09/2024-Current
Research Scientist Internship
Meta AI
- Effective multi-agent system for recommendation
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11/2023-08/2024
Research Scientist Intern
Cisco Research
- Investigate efficient and effective machine unlearning algorithms for foundation models, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Diffusion Models (DMs), and Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs).
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05/2023-08/2023
Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon AWS
- Investigate the in-context learning for vision generative models, including its design, training, and generalization ability.
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01/2021-08/2021
Research Internship
JD AI Research
- Develop algorithms to enhance the robustness and the fairness of the AI algorithms, such as facial recognition, ORC, object detection. Implement and release the new designed algorithms to the JD corperation for intern use or as part of the commercial APIs.
Honors and Awards
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2024
- 2024 MLCommons ML and Systems Rising Stars sponsored by Nvidia
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2023
- AAAI 2023 Travel Award
- NeurIPS Scholar Award
- NeurIPS Top Reviewer
- CVPR 2023 Outstanding Reviewer
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2022
- Best Paper Runner-up Awards, UAI 2022
- NeurIPS Scholar Award
- NeurIPS Top Reviewer
- ICML 2022 Travel Grant Award
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2017
- National Scholarship
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2016
- National Scholarship
Professional Services
- Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV/ECCV, AISTATS, UAI
- Journal Reviewer: TMLR, T-PAMI, T-IFS,
- Student chair of ICML’22 Workshop AdvML (New Frontiers in Adversarial Machine Learning).
- Student chair of ICML'23 Workshop AdvML (New Frontiers in Adversarial Machine Learning).
- Student chair of NeurIPS'24 Workshop AdvML (New Frontiers in Adversarial Machine Learning).
Tutorials/Talk
- AAAI 2024 Tutorial, Zeroth-Order Machine Learning: Fundamental Principles and Emerging Applications in Foundation Models
- AAAI 2023 Tutorial, Bi-level Optimization in Machine Learning: Foundations and Applications
- Talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2022, Advancing Algorithmic Foundation of Robust Deep Learning through the Lens of Bi-level Optimization