Han Zhao | Curriculum Vitae 3320 Siebel Center, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL – USA – 61801 https://hanzhaoml.github.io/ Q
[email protected] Æ (+1) 412-652-4404 Research Interests Machine Learning: representation learning, transfer and multitask learning, algorithmic fairness Artificial Intelligence: probabilistic circuits, graphical models Employment Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Adjunct Assistant Professor Aug. 2020 - Aug. 2021 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Aug. 2021 - Present The D. E. Shaw Group Mar. 2020 - Aug. 2021 Machine Learning Researcher Education Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, United States PhD, Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science Sep. 2015 - Aug. 2020 + Advisor: Prof. Geoff Gordon + Thesis: Towards a Unified Framework for Learning and Reasoning, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10350.23363 + Thesis Committee: Geoffrey J. Gordon (chair), Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Barnabás Póczos and Tommi S. Jaakkola (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) University of Waterloo ON, Canada Master of Mathematics, Computer Science Sep. 2013 - May. 2015 + Advisor: Prof. Pascal Poupart + Alumni Gold Medal Award, University of Waterloo Tsinghua University Beijing, China Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Computer Science Aug. 2009 - July. 2013 + Distinguished Graduate of Tsinghua University University of Waterloo ON, Canada Exchange Student, Computer Science Sep. 2012 - May. 2013 + Advisor: Prof. Pascal Poupart Research and Industry Experience SELECT Lab, Carnegie Mellon University Sep. 2015 - Apr. 2020 Research Assistant Petuum, Inc. Jan. 2019 - May. 2019 Parttime Research Intern The D. E. Shaw Group May. 2018 - Aug. 2018 Quantitative Research Intern + Mentor: Dr. Stephen Curran Microsoft Research AI&R, Redmond May. 2017 - Aug. 2017 Research Intern + Mentors: Dr. Ivan Tashev and Dr.