Wenzheng Zhang
Scholar

Wenzheng Zhang

Google Scholar ID: eho8mxoAAAAJ
Rutgers University
Natural Language ProcessingDeep Learning
Citations & Impact
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Citations
170
 
H-index
4
 
i10-index
3
 
Publications
5
 
Co-authors
6
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Publications:
  • - ImpRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Implicit Queries
  • - Seq2seq is All You Need for Coreference Resolution
  • - Improving Multitask Retrieval by Promoting Task Specialization
  • - EntQA: Entity Linking as Question Answering
  • - Understanding Hard Negatives in Noise Contrastive Estimation
Research Experience
  • Research Intern at Microsoft, Jun 2022 – Sep 2022, worked with Prof. Chenyan Xiong and Arnold Overwijk on multi-task retrieval; Research Intern at Meta FAIR, May 2024 – Dec 2024, worked with Dr. Mingda Chen, Dr. Scott Yih, and Dr. Victoria Lin on query-free RAG.
Education
  • Currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Rutgers University, advised by Prof. Karl Stratos; received an M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers in Spring 2021; earned a B.S. in Applied Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019.
Background
  • Research interests include retrieval-augmented generation and entity-centric language understanding. Particularly interested in the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs).
Miscellany
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