Zhun Deng
Incoming Assistant Professor (Spring 2025)
Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University
Email: zhun dot d at columbia dot edu
I am looking for self-motivated students in CS/Stat/(Applied) Maths to work with. For more details, please click here.
Hi! I am an incoming tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, hosted by Toniann Pitassi and Richard Zemel. I completed my Ph.D. in the Theory of Computation group at Harvard University under the guidance of Cynthia Dwork. Prior to Harvard, I received my B.Sc. in Mathematics from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University.
I am broadly interested in problems at the frontier of machine learning, statistics, and theoretical computer science. I mostly develop practical frameworks with theoretical guarantees to address cutting-edge issues regarding reliable learning and responsible computing.
News
07/2024 - our paper on selective recalibration is accepted by TMLR.
05/2024 - our paper on learning and forgetting of LLM is accepted by ICML 2024.
04/2024 - our paper on distribution-free risk control for large language models is accepted by ICLR 2024.
03/2024 - a new paper on reconciling diverse opinions in reinforcement learning from human feedback is on arXiv now.
02/2024 - I delivered a talk on practical theories in responsible machine learning at the Center for Data Science, New York University.