Ziniu(Michael) Zhang

Hi there!🤗 I am a Ph.D Student of Khoury College of Computer Sciences in Northeastern University starting from Fall 2024. I work with Prof. Hongyang R. Zhang.

Previously, I was a visiting student in the University of Queensland advised by Prof. Yadan Luo. After that, I was a research intern in MMLAB@NTU advised by Prof. Ziwei Liu.

I am extremely grateful to all professors, mentors, and friends who have helped me on my research journey!💖

I obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science (Honor College) from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(UESTC) in 2024.

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Research

My research interest now aligns with machine learning theory and algorithms.

(* equal contributions)

Scalable Fine-tuning from Multiple Data Sources: A First-Order Approximation Approach
Dongyue Li*, Ziniu Zhang*, Lu Wang, Hongyang R. Zhang
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Findings), 2024.
Project / Paper

MMInA: Benchmarking Multihop Multimodal Internet Agents
Ziniu Zhang*, Shulin Tian*, Liangyu Chen*, Ziwei Liu
Preprint 2024
Project / Paper / Demo

Awards
- Silver medal in the 47th ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest Asian Reginal (Rank: 48/511)
- Silver medal in the 8th China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC).
- Bronze medal in the 7th China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC).
- First Prize in the 23rd National Olympic in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP) (Senior group).

Service

- Reviewer: AAAI (2025), AISTATS (2025).
- Volunteer in the 10th China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC) Final.
- Member of the technical group of 2021 National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP).

Backyard

- I'm addicted in badminton🏸 and won some medals in UESTC. My fav players are Lin Dan, Chiharu Shida and Shi Yu Qi.
- I'm also passionate about cycling🚴. I have completed several 100+ km routes. My goal is to cycle along G318 to Lhasa.
- I enjoy hiking ⛰️, alpine skiing ⛷️, ice skating ⛸️, swimming 🏊 etc. Feel free to contact me if you have same interests!
- I served as the major volunteer in 31st FISU World University Games🏃.

Last update: 10/1/2024

Thanks a lot to Jon Barron for his template!