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
- 2024.04: 🎉🎉 I will be an incoming PhD student at Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Weiyan Shi!
- 2023.12: 📣📣 I am looking for a PhD position in 24 Fall!
📝 Publications
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
- 2020.9 - 2023.12, University of Michigan
- 2019.09 - 2020.05, University of Massachusetts Amherst
🩰 Beyond Work
- I have two cute kittens 🐈, one is a ragdoll and his name is Rainier, another is an american shorthair and his name is Mia (there’s a really fun story of the origin of his name)
- I like to swim 🏊🏻♀️, hiking 🚶🏻♀️, and skating ⛸️ duing my spare time.