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Curriculum vitae.

General Information

Full Name Jiamu (Morris) Zhang
Email mz81@rice.edu
Languages English, Mandarin Chinese

Summary

  • Ph.D. student in Computer Science focusing on efficient and scalable deep learning and agentic systems, with interests in model compression, system-aware efficiency optimization, and evaluation.

Education

  • 08/2024 - Present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    Rice University, Houston, TX
    • Advisor: Prof. Hanjie Chen, Chili Lab (08/2025 - Present)
    • Advisor: Prof. Xia "Ben" Hu, Data Lab (08/2024 - 08/2025)
  • 05/2024
    B.S. in Computer Science
    Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
    • Department of Computer and Data Science.
    • Advisors: Prof. Shuai Xu and Prof. Vipin Chaudhary.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    Dean's High Honor List & Latin Honors
    Case Western Reserve University
  • 2024
    The Computer and Data Science Research Award
    Case Western Reserve University
  • 2024
    Swanger Graduate Fellowship
    Case Western Reserve University

Research Interests

  • Efficient Models and Inference Systems
    • System-aware model compression (pruning, sparsification, quantization) and algorithm-implementation co-design.
    • Scalable architectures for efficient inference and serving (e.g., Mixture-of-Experts, conditional routing).
  • Agentic and Reasoning-Centric Systems
    • Efficient reasoning and test-time compute control for LLMs and multi-agent systems.
    • Evaluation of LLM / agentic systems beyond accuracy.

Selected Publications

  • See the publications page for a full list with short digests.

Professional Service

  • Conference Reviewer
    • NeurIPS, ICML, ACL
  • Journal Reviewer
    • IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TCDS, ACM TIST, ACM TCH, and Neurocomputing.

Teaching

  • 2026 Spring
    TA, COMP 584 - Natural Language Processing
    Rice University
  • 2025 Spring
    TA, COMP 631 - Introduction to Information Retrieval
    Rice University
  • 2022, 2023, 2024
    TA, CSDS 302 - Discrete Mathematics
    Case Western Reserve University
  • 2023 Spring
    TA, CSDS 386 - Quantum Computing, Information, and Devices
    Case Western Reserve University