Scholar
Ruqi Zhang
Google Scholar ID: 4ojpmc8AAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University
Citations & Impact
Citations
816
H-index
12
i10-index
15
Publications
20
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Multiple papers accepted at top-tier conferences including NeurIPS (2022–2025), ICML (2022–2025), ICLR (2023–2025), AISTATS (2023–2025), EMNLP 2025, COLM 2025, IROS (2024–2025), AIES 2023, etc.
- Received NSF IIS RI funding for research on gradient-based discrete sampling
- Awarded Amazon Research Award for studying test-time alignment
- Recipient of the Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) Postdoctoral Research Program Fund
- Recipient of the Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Fund
- Served as Area Chair for ICML 2025, NeurIPS 2024, UAI 2024, AISTATS 2024, etc.
- Serving as Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
- Selected for AAAI-25 New Faculty Highlights program
- Co-organized multiple workshops and symposia, including Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference (4th–7th), ICML 2023 Workshop on Sampling and Optimization in Discrete Space, NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on ML with New Compute Paradigms, etc.
- Invited speaker at venues such as Monte Carlo Seminar, Midwest Machine Learning Symposium, IJCAI 2025 Workshop, Morgan Stanley External Speaker Series, Simons Institute at UC Berkeley, etc.
