Biography

Hi, everyone! I am Meiyu Zhong, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona. I am very lucky to work with Dr. Ravi Tandon. Previously, I received my M.S. degree from University of Southern California and B.S. degree in Shanghai University, majoring in Electrical Engineering.

Education

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, 08/2021-Present
  • Major in Electrical Engineering
  • GPA: 4.0/4.0
  • Research interest: Fairness and Robostness in machine learning
• Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, 08/2019-05/2021
  • Major in Electrical Engineering
  • GPA: 3.77/4.0
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai University, 09/2015-06/2019
  • Major in Electrical Engineering
  • Major GPA: 3.77/4.0

Research Interests

• Efficient LLM (Speculative Decoding)
• Fair Machine Learning Algorithms and Fair LLM Design
• Certified Robust Algorithms and Adversarial Training

Work experience

• Smart Manufacture & AI Data Science intern, Micron Technology, Feb 2024 - May 2025
• Data Science intern, GiantKONE Elevator Co., Ltd., Aug 2018 - Nov 2018

Skills

• Programming language: Python (proficient), Matlab (proficient), C/C++ (familiar), SQL (familiar).
• Tools&Packages: PyTorch, Hugging Face, HPC, Latex, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Git, Unix/Linux, etc.
• Robust machine learning: Certified Robustness, Adversarial Training.
• Fair machine learning: Group Fairness, Individual Fairness.

Awards and Honors

• Champion of the 19th China Basketball Robot Competitoon, Yibin, China, 2018 - 2019
• Academic Excellent Scholarship Level I (top 5), Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
• Hezong Welding Academic Scholarship Level II, Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
• Hezong Welding Academic Scholarship Level III, Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
• Leadership Scholarship, Sep 2015 - Jul 2016