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Zihao Zhou
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Zihao Zhou

Machine Learning PhD Student

(858)729-4258 | ziz244@ucsd.edu | La Jolla, CA

Research interests

Deep learning, Deep generative models, Spatiotemporal modeling,

Point Process, Time-series Forecasting, Anomaly Detection

Education

Sep 2022 - Now

University of California, San Diego

  • PhD student in Computer Science
  • Advisor: Rose Yu

Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
University of California, San Diego

  • MS in Computer Science
  • GPA: 4.0
  • Advisor: Rose Yu

Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
University of California, San Diego

  • BS in Applied Math
  • BS in Cognitive Science Spec. in Machine Learning
  • Minor in Computer Science.
  • Magna Cum Laude
  • GPA: 3.941 / 4.0, Major GPA: 4.0

Publications

[1] Zhou, Z. & Yu. R., Automatic Integration for Spatiotemporal Neural Point Processes., Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023

[2] Zhou, Z. & Yu, R., Automatic Integration for Fast and Interpretable Neural Point Processes., Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 2023

[3] Li, A.*, Zhou, Z.*, Jortberg, E. & Yu, R., Generalization of Deep Sequence Models for Forecasting Aortic Pressure Cross Cohort., Computing in Cardiology (CinC), 2022 (* equal contribution)

[4] Zhou, Z., Yang, X., He, X., Rossi, R., Zhao, H., & Yu, R., Neural Point Process for Learning Spatiotemporal Event Dynamics., Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 2022

[5] Zhang, H., Zhou, Z., Orso, P., Pham, D., Montenegro, H., … & Caso, J. Triton RCSC 2021 Team Description Paper., Robocup Small Size League (RCSSL), 2021

Awards / Honors

Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
Robocup SSL Team TritonsRCSC Software Team Leader

TritonsRCSC homepage | Github codebase | Poster

· TritonRCSC is the first UCSD team that receives qualification for competing in the RoboCup Small Size League

· Designed the team software architecture (Java/C++ socket-based) and coordinated the development [4]

· Implemented the robot’s path search, obstacle avoidance, motion prediction and ball passing algorithms

Jun 2020 - Present
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Membership

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
China National Smart Weather Service


Innovation Competition, 2nd Prize

Sep 2016 - Jun 2020
UCSD Provost Honor

Teaching Experience

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Teaching Assistant

Principles of Artificial Intelligence, CSE 250A, UCSD

Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Instructional Assistant

Intro to Machine Learning II, COGS 118B, UCSD

Industry Experience

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
ML Research Engineer Intern, Mininglamp Tech. Gr.

· Surveyed the current state of the art of deep temporal point process, with an emphasis on modeling dynamic knowledge graph

· Filed a patent on user identity linkage system from heterogeneous trajectories using a new trajectory similarity measure

Skills

System Admin

UCSD CSE Shared Server Admin, Rose Lab Server Admin

Benchmarked the Nautilus supercomputer cluster

Software Dev

Linux, Git, PyCharm, IntelliJ, VS Code, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3

Coding

Python, Java, MatLab, C/C++, R, VueJS

Media

HTML, NodeJS, LaTex, Photoshop, Illustrator, Vegas, Final Cut Pro


Last updated: Dec 2023