Juzheng Zhang

2nd-year PhD student in Computer Science

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I am a 2nd-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Tom Goldstein. My research focuses on post-training methods for large language models. I also explore novel model architectures, particularly diffusion LLMs. My long-term research vision is to push LLMs and broader agentic systems toward reliable general reasoning and continual self-improvement. Before joining UMD, I graduated with honors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

I am currently seeking Research Internship opportunities and am open to collaborations. Feel free to reach out! 🤝

Selected Publications

  1. COLM
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    LoRI: Reducing Cross-Task Interference in Multi-Task Low-Rank Adaptation
    Juzheng Zhang, Jiacheng You, Ashwinee Panda, and Tom Goldstein
    Conference on Language Modeling, 2025
  2. arXiv
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    UniMoT: Unified Molecule-Text Language Model with Discrete Token Representation
    Juzheng Zhang, Yatao Bian, Yongqiang Chen, and Quanming Yao
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00863, 2024
  3. KDD
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    Heuristic Learning with Graph Neural Networks: A Unified Framework for Link Prediction
    Juzheng Zhang, Lanning Wei, Zhen Xu, and Quanming Yao
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2024

Honors and Awards

  • Dean’s Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2024
  • Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2023
  • Shanghai Government Scholarship, Shanghai Government, 2021
  • Meritorious Winner, International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2021

Services

  • Reviewer for NeurIPS 25, ICML 25 & 24, ICLR 26 & 25 & 24, KDD 24, and AAAI 26.
  • Teaching Assistant for CMSC 250 Discrete Structures, Fall 2024