About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at the School of Information of University of Michigan advised by Professor Paramveer Dhillon. Also, I am honored to work closely with Professor Qiaozhu Mei and Yixin Wang. Before that, I earned my B.S. degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, transferred from the School of Informatics at Xiamen University where I majored in Computer Science and Technology.

I am broadly interested in natural language processing, machine learning and computational social science. Specifically, I am working on the problem of 1) distributional shift and out-of-domain generalization in which I propose novel robust training strategies to improve the generalizability of models under different types of group distributional shift and 2) dynamic sequence optimization in human-AI collaboratative writing.

Previously, I was working on finding the political heterogeneity of reddit users with Professor David Jurgens at Blablablab. I also worked on text simplification with Professor Ruihong Huang in Texas A&M University.

Publication

• Classification without (Proper) Representation: Political Heterogeneity in Social Media and Its Implications for Classification and Behavioral Analysis 🔗
  Kenan Alkiek, Bohan Zhang, David Jurgens
  In Findings of ACL 2022
  

• Predicting Sentence Deletions for Text Simplification Using a Functional Discourse Structure 🔗
  Bohan Zhang, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Ruihong Huang
  In Proceedings of ACL 2022
  

• CoGT: Ensemble machine learning method and its application on JAK inhibitor discovery 🔗
  Yingzi Bu^*, Ruoxi Gao^*, Bohan Zhang^*, Luchen Zhang, Duxin Sun
  ACS Omega 2023
  

Poster Presentation

• Ranking & Reweighting Improves Group Distributional Robustness 🔗
  Yachuan Liu^*, Bohan Zhang^*, Qiaozhu Mei, Paramveer Dhillon
  Midwest Machine Learning Symposium 2023
  

Achievement and Service

• ACL 2022 student voluteer award
• Reviewer for ACL 2023, WWW 2023. Program Committee Member for WWW 2023.

Education

• University of Michigan
  Ph.D. in Information Science
  Aug. 2022 -- Present
• University of Michigan
  M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
  Aug. 2020 -- Apr. 2022
• The Ohio State University
  B.S. in Computer Science
  Minor in Linguistics
  Aug. 2017 -- May 2020
• Xiamen University
  Major in Computer Science and Technology (Transferred out)
  Aug. 2015 -- July. 2017

Working Experience

• Initium. AI
  Machine Learning Software Engineering Intern
  May 2021 -- Aug 2021

• The Ohio State University
  Student Instructor Assistant of CSE2421: Introduction to Low-level Programming and Computer Organization
  Jan 2019 -- May 2020

Misc

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Contact

Email