Jinman Zhao

I graduated with a PhD degree in computer sciences in 2021 from University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Somesh Jha and Prof. Aws Albarghouthi.

My research interest lies in the intersection of machine learning, programming language and natural language. I am specifically interested in big code and naturalness tasks and word embedding methods.

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Research Topics

• Representation Learning for Source Code. Leveraging large corpus and naturalness, build (deep) learning models for code understanding, generation, language modeling and embedding.
• Subword Embedding Methods. Look into word spellings to utilize lexical information and mitigate problems caused by a fixed-size vocabulary.
• Learning from Structures. Towards effective and efficient deep learning over structured data, for example, trees and DAGs.

Papers

• Code Prediction by Feeding Trees to Transformers,
  Seohyun Kim*, Jinman Zhao*, Yuchi Tian, Satish Chandra.
  (*Equal contribution)
  ICSE 2021 / arXiv
• PBoS: Probabilistic Bag-of-Subwords for Generalizing Word Embedding,
  Zhao Jinman, Shawn Zhong, Xiaomin Zhang, Yingyu Liang.
  Findings of EMNLP 2020 / arXiv / slides / talk
• Generalizing Word Embeddings using Bag of Subwords,
  Jinman Zhao, Sidharth Mudgal, Yingyu Liang.
  EMNLP 2018 / arXiv / slides / talk
• Neural-Augmented Static Analysis of Android Communication,
  Jinman Zhao, Aws Albarghouthi, Vaibhav Rastogi, Somesh Jha, Damien Octeau.
  FSE 2018 / arXiv / slides / poster
• The Effect of Network Width on the Performance of Large-batch Training,
  Lingjiao Chen, Hongyi Wang, Jinman Zhao, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Paraschos Koutris.
  NeurIPS 2018 / arXiv

Selected Reports

• Investigating the skip-gram word embedding model, 2017 Spring.
• Low resolution facial landmark detection, 2016 Spring.
• Learning comment topics from code, 2016 Spring.

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Service & Activities

• Reviewer of AAAI’21, EMNLP’20, AAAI’20, NeurIPS’19, ICML’19.
• Subreviewer of SysML’20, WWW’20.
• Coach of the UW-Madison’s ICPC Team ‘17-‘19.
• Chair of the UW-Madison’s SACM Event Committee ‘18-‘19.

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