Zhihao Jia

Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
zhihao@cmu.edu

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where I work on computer systems and machine learning as part of CMU Catalyst Group and Parallel Data Lab. Before joining CMU, I was a research scientist at Facebook. I received my PhD from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2020, where I was co-advised by Alex Aiken and Matei Zaharia. Before coming to Stanford, I received my bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Special Pilot CS Class supervised by Andrew Yao at Tsinghua University.

Research interests: I am interested in building systems for emerging application domains such as machine learning, quantum computing, and large-scale data analytics. In particular, my current research focuses on (1) accelerating deep learning computations on modern hardware platforms, and (2) optimizing quantum computations on today's intermediate-scale quantum devices.

Zhihao Jia

I am actively looking for strong and self-motivated students interested in building systems for machine learning and quantum computing to join my group.
(1) Prospective students: if you are interested in working with me as a Ph.D. student, please apply through the CMU CS PhD program and mention me in your application.
(2) Current CMU students: if you are already a graduate, masters, or undergraduate student at CMU, please send me an email and we can find a time to chat.
(3) Prospective students not at CMU: if you are interested in joining my group for remote collaborations, please send me an email with your CV.

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