Zheng Zhao
Scholar

Zheng Zhao

Google Scholar ID: UO0MJeQAAAAJ
PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
natural language processinglarge language modelscomputational linguistics
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Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
350
 
H-index
8
 
i10-index
8
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
23
list available
Contact
Emailzheng.zhao@ed.ac.ukTwitterOpen ↗GitHubOpen ↗LinkedInOpen ↗
Publications
2 items
CodeCircuit: Toward Inferring LLM-Generated Code Correctness via Attribution Graphs
2026
Cited
0
Self-Improving World Modelling with Latent Actions
2026
Cited
0
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Presented work on uncovering where multi-task learning happens in instruction-tuned LLMs at EMNLP 2024
  • - Presented papers on temporal grounding and context understanding in LLMs at NAACL 2024
  • - Presented two papers on multilingual summarization and multilingual representation analysis at EMNLP 2023
  • - Published a paper titled 'Verifying Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Its Computational Graph' on arXiv, proposing Circuit-based Reasoning Verification (CRV) to detect and correct errors in chain-of-thought reasoning
Research Experience
  • - Meta FAIR, Research Scientist Intern, May 2025 - Oct. 2025
  • - Amazon AGI, Applied Scientist Intern, Sep. 2024 - Mar. 2025
  • - Amazon Alexa AI, Applied Scientist Intern, Jun. 2023 - Nov. 2023
  • - Goldman Sachs, Summer Analyst, Jun. 2018 - Aug. 2018
Education
  • - University of Edinburgh, PhD in Natural Language Processing, Sep. 2020 - Present, Supervisors: Shay Cohen, Bonnie Webber
  • - University of Edinburgh, Masters by Research in Natural Language Processing, Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2020
  • - University of Edinburgh, BEng in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, Sep. 2015 - Jul. 2019
Background
  • - A final-year PhD candidate in Natural Language Processing at the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training, University of Edinburgh
  • - Research interests: Uncovering and understanding the inner workings of large language models (LLMs), including domain learning, multilingual representation analysis, instruction tuning, and multi-task learning
  • - Affiliated with the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) in the School of Informatics, The Cohort, and EdinburghNLP research groups
Miscellany
  • - Contact: zheng.zhao@ed.ac.uk
  • - Social media/academic profiles: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn, ORCID
Co-authors
23 total
Shay Cohen
Shay Cohen
University of Edinburgh
Bonnie Webber
Bonnie Webber
Professor, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
yftah ziser
yftah ziser
Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Informatics, Edinburgh University
Yifu Qiu
Yifu Qiu
PhD student, University of Edinburgh / University of Cambridge
Pinzhen Chen
Pinzhen Chen
University of Edinburgh
Anna Korhonen
Anna Korhonen
Professor, Artificial Intelligence, University of Cambridge
Edoardo M. Ponti
Edoardo M. Ponti
University of Edinburgh & NVIDIA
Jens Lehmann
Jens Lehmann
Principal Scientist at Amazon Inc., Honorary Professor at TU Dresden