Scholar
Yaochen Zhu
Google Scholar ID: mNKYtHEAAAAJ
University of Virginia
Citations & Impact
Citations
854
H-index
12
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Multiple papers accepted at top conferences including NeurIPS 2025, EMNLP 2025, KDD 2025, ICML 2025, ICLR 2025, WWW 2025
- - Received several fellowships, including 2025 UVA Rookie of the Year Fellowship, 2024 UVA SEAS Endowed Fellowship, Wilson Bicentennial Grad Fellowship
- - Best paper award at KDD 2025 GenAIRecP workshop for the paper 'LLM-based Conversational Recommendation Agents with Collaborative Verbalized Experience'
Research Experience
- - Contributed to key components in various industrial-level LLM-based foundation models at Netflix and LinkedIn
- - Worked as a machine learning research intern at Netflix Inc. (Summer'24)
Education
- - Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia (UVA), advised by Prof. Jundong Li
- - Master's degree from IIP Lab, Wuhan University, advised by Prof. Zhenzhong Chen
Background
- - Research Interests: Building reliable, controllable, and efficient large language models (LLMs), with a focus on post-training & RL alignment, reasoning, RAG, and mechanistic interpretability
- - Professional Field: Causal inference & deep probabilistic models to improve the robustness of machine learning
Miscellany
- - Actively seeking industrial R&D opportunities, including internships (Spring/Summer 2026) and full-time positions (2026)
Co-authors