Jinhao Zhao

Welcome

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis, advised by Prof. Kunal Agrawal. My research focuses on theoretical computer science, including parallel computing, distributed systems, and algorithms. I am a coauthor on papers at ECRTS, RTSS, PPoPP, and SPAA; our ECRTS 2026 paper received the Outstanding Paper Award, and our SPAA 2024 paper received the Best Paper Award. Since June 2026, I have been an E-commerce Recommendation Algorithm Intern at TikTok Inc. in Seattle, where I collect and analyze online data for e-commerce cold-start scenarios and train models for uplift modeling tasks. Previously, I worked on automatic speech recognition at Zhuiyi.ai and computer vision at Megvii, and I contribute to open-source (jx3bla).

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