Muru Zhang

Hi! I’m a first-year PhD student at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Swabha Swayamdipta and Prof. Robin Jia. I’m interested in all things related to language models, particularly in activation engineering, post-training adaptation, undertanding of LLM internal, and efficiency.

I’m currently interning with Together AI, working on adapting LLM for efficiency. In Summer 2023, I interned with the CodeWhisperer team at Amazon, where I worked on efficient long-context langauge modeling.

I completed both my Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree at University of Washington and I was very fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Noah A. Smith, Ofir Press, and Aaron Walsman. I’m grateful for all my amazing collaborators and mentors at UW for their help and guidance on research.

I love teaching and had plenty of joys as a teaching assistant at UW for 9-quarters, it was my pleasure to be able to teach computer science to the excellent audience at the Allen school :)

You can download my CV here.