Rosie Zhao
Hi there! I’m a fourth year PhD student in Computer Science at Harvard University advised by Boaz Barak and Sham Kakade. Recently I’ve been thinking about reasoning in LLMs, optimization, and multimodal models. I’m grateful to be supported by a Kempner Institute Graduate Fellowship.
I previously completed my undergrad and Master’s at McGill University under the supervision of Prakash Panangaden; there, my research was geared towards representation learning and state abstractions in reinforcement learning, as well as various topics in theoretical computer science.
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| Oct 7, 2025 | I’m attending COLM 2025 in Montreal! 🇨🇦 I’ll be presenting Echo Chamber during the poster session on Thursday morning. Come drop by or reach out to chat! |
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| May 12, 2025 |
Started a summer internship at Apple working on multimodal language models with the Video Computer Vision team! |
| Apr 22, 2025 |
I will be attending ICLR 2025 in Singapore! Come check out our accepted papers on Deconstructing Optimizers for LLM Training and SOAP, or reach out if you want to chat! |