Ziruo Zhao
About Me
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Zining Zhu. Before beginning my Ph.D., I earned an M.S. in Spatial Economics from the University of Southern California and a B.Sc. in Mathematics with Statistics from Imperial College London.
My research focuses on large language models (LLMs), particularly on long-horizon reasoning, agentic systems, and evaluation. I am interested in understanding how LLMs reason and act over extended interactions, coordinate with external tools and agents, and make effective use of information and computational resources. I am also broadly interested in learning theory and optimization.
Research Interests
- LLM Reasoning: long-horizon and multi-turn reasoning
- Agentic Systems: adaptive orchestration
- LLM Evaluation: capabilities, efficiency, reliability, and robustness
News
- [Aug. 2026] Our paper on fine-grained human–AI co-authorship detection was accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings.
Publications
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Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026.
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