Title
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., Statistics; MS, Computer Science, Cornell University, 2016-2021
B.S., Mathematics, Renmin University of China, 2012-2016
Prior Appointments
2021–2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning, UT Austin
2020 Research Intern, Microsoft Research New England
2019 Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Research Areas
AI safety and security
Key Areas
AI, Machine Learning
Notable Awards
Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Fund · 2023
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Top Reviewer · 2023
ICML Best Reviewers (Top 10%) · 2021
Spotlight Rising Star in Data Science · University of Chicago · 2020
NeurIPS Top 10% Reviewers Award · 2020
NeurIPS Travel Grant · 2019
Academic Outstanding Scholarship · Renmin University of China · 2013-2015
Exchange Students Scholarship · University of Helsinki · 2015
Biography
Ruqi Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Before that, She was a postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning, UT Austin. She completed her PhD at Cornell University. Her main research interests are machine learning, deep learning, and probabilistic methods.
