Xinliang (Frederick) Zhang | 张心亮

Hi there, I am Xinliang (Frederick) Zhang. I am from Hangzhou. My Chinese name is 张心亮. Usually, I go by Frederick.

I am a rising 2nd 3rd-year CSE Ph.D. candidate at University of Michigan (UM). My advisor is Dr. Lu Wang and I am a member of LAUNCH Group. I am also affiliated with Michigan AI Lab. This summer, I am a reserach intern at Bloomberg AI (May 2023 - Aug. 2023), mentored by Dr. Alakananda Vempala and supervised by Temma Choji.

I received my B.S. degrees from the Ohio State University (OSU) in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) and Math (Minor). I also obtianed my B.Eng. degree from Sichuan University (SCU) in Industrial Engineering (IE). I was fortunate to have Dr. Huan Sun as my advisor at OSU and proud of being part of SunLab. I was also privileged to work closely with Dr. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe.

My reserch interests lie in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning (DL), Machine Learning (ML) and Computational Social Science (CSS). Particularly, I have been leading projects on Narrative Understanding, Information Extraction, Pretraining Language Models, Natural Language Inference, Information Retrieval, and Question Answering & Generation. I am also interested in NLP applications for Media Bias Analysis and Healthcare (Clinical NLP).
I was awarded Outstanding Reviewer at NAACL 2022. My work received Best Paper Award at BIBM 2021.

I am also broadly interested in Optimization, Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Linguistics. I am passionate about language learning as well, especially Eastern Asian languages. Explore more interests now!

You may reach out to me at xlfzhang@umich.edu.

I am looking for self-motivated UM UGs/masters to work with on topics including Information Extraction, Narrative Understanding, and Evaluation. Please contact me directly, if interested.