Minjia Zhang

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Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, 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)

Research Topics

• AI Applications
• AI Systems

Honors

• Amazon Research Award (2025)
• Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award (2025)
• NSF CAREER Award (2025)
• Supervised student recipient of SC 2025 Best Student Paper Award (2025)
• Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Inaugural CS 498 Machine Learning Systems) (Spring 2025)
• Honorable Mention of the ICLR 2024 Outstanding Paper Awards (2024)
• OOPSLA Distinguished Artifact Award (2015)
• OOPSLA Distinguished Paper Award (2015)