Zekun ZhaoPh.D. StudentDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering Jack Baskin School of Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz Email: zzhao99 [at] ucsc [dot] edu
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Bio
Zekun Zhao is a Ph.D. student working with Professor Jeffrey Flanigan in the Computer Science and Engineering department at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on large language model inference with knowledge-based reasoning. He obtained his B.Eng. at Nankai University in Intelligent Science and Technology. He worked at JMing-Ming Cheng's Lab and Feng Duan's Lab.Research Interests
Zekun's research interests in developing methods that enhance both the understanding and generation of natural language with an emphasis on efficient and effective performance.- Natural Language Processing (natural language grounding, knowledge-based reasoning, inference speedup)
- Verification in AI (formal verification for generative AI, neural theorem proving)
- Machine Learning (deep learning, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, multimodal machine learning)
School
Check out the most beautiful and unique campus of UCSC [YouTube video | bilibili video].News
| [07/2025] | Join in ACL 2025, Vienna. |
| [06/2024] | Join UMR Parsing Workshop 2024 at CU Boulder. |
| [07/2022] | Join NAACL 2022 in Seattle. |
| [07/2020] | Session Volunteer in ACL 2020. |
| [06/2016] | Joined the KameRider Team for RoboCup@Home at 2016. |
Reports
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LiDARR: Linking Document AMRs with Referents Resolvers |
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Mimic Face: A Real-time Web Application for 3D Face Animation |
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Voting Loss Function: a voting mechanism to measure how bad the current estimate is in respect to smoothness and accuracy [Report] |
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Gender Obfuscation in Text: This project is aiming for protecting the privacy. [Report] |
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Dialogue state traking: This project is aiming for tracking the history of multi-domain dialogue. [Report] |
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A Survey on Probabilistic Programming in the Context of
Neural Networks [Report] |
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undergraduate and master reprot |
Teaching
| 2020 | Fall | Teaching Assistant | NLP201: Natural Language Processing |
| 2020 | Spring | Teaching Assistant | CSE102: Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms |
| 2020 | Winter | Teaching Assistant | CSE102: Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms |
| 2019 | Fall | Teaching Assistant | CSE15: Introduction to Data Structures |