Ruisi Zhang ruz032 [at] ucsd [dot] edu Google Scholar Twitter LinkedIn
I am a fourth-year PhD candidate at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Farinaz Koushanfar. Previously, I received my bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I enjoy building secure machine learning system with scalability and efficiency. Currently, my research interests include their applications in generative large language models.
News
- Mar 2025, Honored to be named a 2025 Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star. Thanks for the support from my advisor and collaborators ❤
- Mar 2025, Our recent work that watermarks physical design layouts is accepted by TCAD & MLCAD (with GNN to automate wm search)
- Nov 2024, Our recent work SimpleFSDP, which traces full communication-computation graph with torch.compile to simplify FSDP training is online
Education
UC San Diego, CA
[Sep 2021 - Jun 2026] Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Data Science
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
[Sep 2017 - Jun 2021] B.E. in Electronic Engineering
Industrial Experience
Meta, CA
[Jul 2024 - Sep 2024] Research Scientist Intern @ PyTorch Distributed
Intel AI Labs, CA
[Jul 2022 - Sep 2022] Research Intern, Distributed GNN training acceleration