Zhiqing Sun
孙之清

PhD Student
CMU LTI (GHC 5507)
zhiqings [at] cs.cmu.edu
Hey there, welcome!
I am a Ph.D. student in Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. I am fortunately advised by Prof. Yiming Yang. I received my M.S. degree in May 2021 and anticipate completing my Ph.D. studies in 2024. My academic journey began at Peking University, where I received a B.S. in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Zhi-Hong Deng.
Research Interests
My research focuses on neural-symbolic reasoning, which entails synergistically leveraging the strengths of machine learning systems with symbolic systems such as knowledge graphs and combinatorial optimization solvers.
More recently, my research interests have been oriented towards the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), with a special emphasis on improving reliability through scalable oversight (minimal human supervision) such as human-defined principles or factual feedback from real-world interactions.
I have also conducted research in related fields, including efficient sequence generation (non-autoregressive generation and sparse attention), model compression (knowledge distillation), and AI4Science (neural PDE solvers).
Education
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Aug. 2019 - Present, Ph.D. in Language Technologies
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), Peking University
- Sept. 2015 - July 2019, B.S. in Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude)
Experience
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
- May 2023 - Aug. 2023, Hosts: Chuang Gan and Yikang Shen
Google Brain
- May. 2022 - Aug. 2022, Host: Denny Zhou and Xuezhi Wang
Google Brain
- Apr. 2019 - Aug. 2019, Host: Denny Zhou
Microsoft Research Asia
- Oct. 2018 - Apr. 2019, Host: Dongdong Zhang
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute & University of Montreal
- Mar. 2018 - Sept. 2018, Host: Jian Tang and Jian-Yun Nie
Selected Publications
For a more complete list, see the publications page, or my google scholar page.
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