Scholar
Zihan Wang
Google Scholar ID: 6UWtYZQAAAAJ
University of California San Diego
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,943
H-index
18
i10-index
23
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Bronze Medal, ICPC World Finals, Moscow (2021); 2nd in North America, 11th worldwide (11/118)
- World Champion, IEEE Xtreme 13.0 (2019)
- UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Fellowship (2020–2023)
- UCSD Jacob School of Engineering Fellowship (2020–2021)
- UIUC Jeffry P. Blahut Memorial Scholarship (2018)
Research Experience
- Research Intern, Amazon Nile Foundations (Jun 2024–Present): Text compression
- Research Intern, Google CoreML (Jun 2023–Dec 2023): Improving LLMs’ mathematical/programming reasoning via process supervision
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research (Jun 2022–Sep 2022): Efficient fine-tuning of LLMs using mixture-of-experts
- Research Intern, Adobe (Jun 2021–Sep 2021): Efficient long-range Transformer architectures
- Research Assistant, University of Pennsylvania (May 2019–Aug 2019): Low-resource cross-lingual named entity recognition
- Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Dec 2018–May 2019): Tectcubes, topic extraction, and representation learning
Miscellany
- Co-Coach (2020–2022) and Coach (2022–2023) for UCSD ICPC club, mentoring students in algorithmic programming contests
- Led UCSD teams to win North America West-Division Championship twice (2021 and 2023)
- Open to discussions with undergraduates about grad school, industry, NLP research, and competitive programming
- Welcomes collaboration from students interested in NLP research
- Enjoys treating visitors to bubble tea or coffee