Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794
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Biography
Dr. Jiawei (Joe) Zhou earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from Harvard University, affiliated with the Harvard/Cornell NLP group under the supervision of Professor Alexander (Sasha) Rush. He holds an M.A. in Statistics from Harvard University, and a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University. Prior to joining Stony Brook University in 2024, Dr. Zhou was a Research Assistant Professor in Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), situated in the University of Chicago.
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Research
Dr. Zhou’s research mainly lies in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) applications. He has worked on a wide range of core NLP tasks and methodologies such as sequence to sequence techniques for text generations and sequence to graph generations for semantic understanding. His recent work centers around broad language applications and generative AI, where language includes natural language but can also be considered as any sequential information such as code, serialized visual representations, embodied actions, etc. He is motivated to better understand and improve state-of-the-art deep learning models such as (Large) Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal models, on a variety of aspects such as efficiency, memorization, factualness, security, fair evaluation, reasoning and planning.