Muru Zhang

Hi! I’m a Master’s student in Computer Science at the University of Washington, where I completed my Bachelor’s degrees of computer science (B.S.) and mathematics (B.A.) in 2022. I expect to earn my Master’s degree by Spring 2024.

I’m very fortunate to be part of Professor Noah A. Smith’s Lab. Over the past year, I worked with Ofir Press on investigating the compositional abilities in language models, and exploring the phenomenon of hallucination snowballing.

During my undergraduate years, I also worked in Professor Dieter Fox’s lab on unseen object segmentation and tracking, reinforcement learning, and interactive structural understanding.

Thanks to Ofir Press, Aaron Walsman and other amazing collaborators at UW for their mentorship and career advices, I was able to gain research experience and navigate through the academia :)

Being a teaching assistant is my most enjoyable extracurricular acitivity besides doing research. Being 7-quarters TA at UW on algorithm, discrete math, and introductory cs theory, I’m grateful to be able to teach these materials to the excellent audience at the Allen school.

You can download my CV here.