My name is Zhihan Zhang (张智涵). I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Dr. Meng Jiang. I am currently a member of Dr. Jiang’s Data Mining towards Decision Making (DM²) Lab. Prior to my Ph.D. career, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Peking University, where I had the fortune of working with Dr. Yunfang Wu and Dr. Xu Sun. My recent research mainly focuses on Large Language Models (LLMs), Instruction Tuning, Knowledge Augmentation and Text Retrieval.

For my past education and research experience, please refer to Experience. For the full list of my publications, please refer to Publications or check my Google Scholar page.

News

• Oct 2023: Two papers are accepted to EMNLP 2023! These include one first-authored paper on automatic instruction optimization of LLMs, and one co-authored paper on language model pre-training for comparative reasoning.
• Jun 2023: I am joining Snapchat Research as a full-time research intern! I will work with Dr. Francesco Barbieri from the User Modeling & Personalization Group.
• May 2023: One co-authored paper on text retrieval using large language models was accepted by Findings of ACL 2023!
• Apr 2023: One first-authored paper on studying the contrast consistency in open-domain QA was accepted by TACL!
• Jan 2023: One first-authored survey on multi-task learning in NLP was accepted by EACL 2023!
• Jan 2023: I am joining Microsoft Research as a part-time intern this spring! I will work with Dr. Shuohang Wang and Dr. Chenguang Zhu from the Azure Cognitive Services Research group.

Contact

• Email: zzhang23 [at] nd.edu
• Office: 355 Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering
• Location: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556