About Me

I am Jing Zhu, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, with Danai Koutra.

Before that, I obtained my B.S.E. from both the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and I worked with Andrew Owens.

I am interested in:
  • Generalizing LLMs as Search Agents: While current approaches often attempt to use LLMs as comprehensive search engines, LLMs are fundamentally designed to model language patterns and generalize rather than memorize or retrieve specific information. [7]
  • Multimodal Representation Learning: While current multimodal learning primarily focuses on paired representations of two modalities (mostly text and images), real-world data exhibits more complex structures beyond one-to-one relations. [10] [6]
  • Research Interns

    [LLNL]:     2021/05 - 2021/08

    Host: Mark Heimann

    [AWS AI]: 2022/05 - 2022/11

    Host: Xiang Song , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Christos Faloutsos

    [LLNL]:     2023/05 - 2023/08

    Host: Jay Thiagarajan , Mark Heimann, Christine Klymko

    [Snap]:     2024/09 - Present

    Host: Tong Zhao, Neil Shah,

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