Minjia Zhang
Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
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Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Ohio State University, 2016
Academic Positions
- Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, 2024-Present
Other Professional Employment
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research Redmond, Redmond, WA, May-December 2015
Research Interests
- Large-scale DL/AI applications (Agentic AI, MultiModal, Image/Video Generation, etc)
- Effective efficiency algorithms (Model compression, data efficiency, parameter-efficient tuning, etc.)
- Efficient Machine Learning Systems (Training/inference on parallel/distributed/heterogeneous hardware)
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Honors
- Amazon Research Award, 2025 (2025)
- Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award, 2025 (2025)
- Supervised student recipient, Best Student Paper Award, SC, 2025 (2025)
- Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Inaugural CS 498 Machine Learning Systems), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2025 (Spring 2025)
- NSF CAREER Award, 2025 (2025)
- Honorable Mention, Outstanding Paper Awards, ICLR, 2024 (2024)
- OOPSLA Distinguished Paper Award, 2015
- OOPSLA Distinguished Artifact Award, 2015