Tianyi Zhou

Visiting Assistant Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Joined
October 2017

Names

Tianyi Zhou (Preferred)

Emails

****@uw.edu (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@umiacs.umd.edu (Confirmed)
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****@umd.edu (Confirmed)
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****@mbzuai.ac.ae (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Visiting Assistant Professor
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (mbzuai.ac.ae)
2025 – Present
Assistant Professor
Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park (umd.edu)
2022 – 2024
Researcher
Google (google.com)
2021 – 2022
PhD student
Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle (uw.edu)
2013 – 2022
Research Assistant
University of Technology Sydney (uts.edu.au)
2011 – 2013
Research Assistant
School of Computer Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (ntu.edu.sg)
2009 – 2011

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Jeff Bilmes
2014 – 2022
PhD Advisor
Carlos Guestrin
2013 – 2017

Expertise

LLMs
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multi-modal agent
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personalization and controllability of generative AI
2022 – Present
multi-modality models
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vision-language models
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multi-objective optimization
2021 – Present
continual learning
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interpretable AI
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self-supervised learning
2018 – Present
reinforcement learning
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federated learning
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meta-learning
2017 – Present
curriculum learning
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mixture-of-experts
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NLP
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attention mechanism
2016 – Present
submodular optimization
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combinatorial optimization
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spectral method
2013 – Present
dimension reduction
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matrix factorization
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sparse learning
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compressed sensing
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multi-label learning
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multi-task learning
2009 – Present

Publications

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Co-Authors

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