Scholar
Banghua Zhu
Google Scholar ID: iyDxq0EAAAAJ
Assistant Professor at University of Washington; Principal Research Scientist at Nvidia
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,691
H-index
24
i10-index
37
Publications
20
Co-authors
95
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 2023 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize; developed Starling-7B model, ranked first among all existing Mistral-based 7B models according to human evaluation in Chatbot Arena; significant achievements with Athene series models, especially in multilingual capabilities; involved in the development of Huggingface Function Calling Leaderboard, Chatbot Arena, and other evaluation platforms or tools.
Research Experience
- Currently a Principal Research Scientist at Nvidia and an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, leading the Foundation Model and Reinforcement Learning Research Lab (FMRL2). Co-founded Nexusflow AI in 2023, providing reliable AI agent solutions for enterprise use-cases.
Education
- PhD from the Department of EECS, UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Jiantao Jiao and Prof. Michael I. Jordan.
Background
- Research interests include theoretical foundations, training, serving, evaluation, and applications of foundation models. Previously worked on statistics, information theory, and machine learning, with applications in game theory, robust statistics, reinforcement learning, and human-AI interactions.
