Hi there! I’m Jiayi Zhang (张嘉怡), an incoming PhD student at Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Weiyan Shi. Previously, I was an undergraduate student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of Michigan, with a honors major in Computer Science and two minors in Mathematics and Linguistics.

During my undergraduate, I was fortunate to be surrounded by so many great people!

  • I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Lu Wang of LAUNCH Lab, who sparked my interest in Natural Language Processing.
  • During the summer of 2023, I worked in LIT where I was fortuante to be advised by Prof. Rada Mihalcea and mentored by Zhijng Jin, who taught me how to be a well-trained researcher and sparked my interst in Causal Inference and trustworthy AI.

I am broadly interested in NLP, computational social science, LLM safety, and Agents.

This site is very much under construction. Please reach out to me with any questions!

🔥 News

📝 Publications

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Analyzing the Role of Semantic Representations in the Era of Large Language Models

Zhijing Jin*, Yuen Chen, Fernando Gonzalez, Jiarui Liu, Jiayi Zhang, Julian Michael, Bernhard Schölkopf, Mona Diab.

📖 Educations

🩰 Beyond Work

  • I have two adorable kittens 🐈, Rainier and Mia!
  • In my spare time, I like to swim 🏊🏻‍♀️, hiking 🚶🏻‍♀️, and skating ⛸️.
  • I also played a traditional chinese instrument, called Chinese lute or Pipa (琵琶).