Hi. I'm Z.

Zhizhuo Zhou

zhizhuo@umich.edu

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I will be starting MS in Robotics at CMU Fall 2021. I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan advised by David Fouhey.

I am interested in building systems that learn from both visual and language cues to mimic human cognitive abilities, such as illustrating images from text.

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News

Mar 2021 - Awarded NSF GRFP.

Jan 2021 - Won ProjectX ML research competition focused on climate change, advised by Sindhu Kutty.

May 2020 - Started research at Fouhey AI Lab with David Fouhey.

Mar 2020 - Michigan Alexa Prize team entered semi-finals.

Sep 2019 - Began work on University of Michigan Alexa Prize social bot, advised by David Jurgens.

June 2019 - Accepted as one of ten university teams globally for Alexa Prize Challenge 3.

May 2019 - Started position as a research intern under Professor Robert Dick.

Sep 2018 - Started school at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Publications

Audrey: A Personalized Open-Domain Conversational Bot

Chung Hoon Hong, Yuan Liang , Sagnik Sinha Roy, Arushi Jain, Vihang Agarwal, Ryan Draves, Zhizhuo Zhou, William Chen, Yujian Liu, Martha Miracky, Lily Ge, Nikola Banovic, David Jurgens

The Alexa Prize Proceedings (2020)

[Paper]

Revealing the Evolution of Non-thermal Electrons in Solar Flares Using 3D Modeling

Gregory D. Fleishman, Gelu M. Nita, Natsuha Kuroda, Sabina Jia, Kevin Tong, Richard R. Wen, Zhou Zhizhuo

In The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 859 (2018)

[Paper]

Projects

  • The Devil is in the Details: Spatial and Temporal Super-Resolution of Global Climate Models using Deep Learning (won projectx2020!)

  • ZeroHero: Fruit and Vegetable Object Detection and Recipe Recommendation

  • trAnSLate: American Sign Language Translator with Image Classification

  • Raspberry Pi Powered Autonomous Car

  • Life RPG: Gamifying Goal Tracking with an Alexa skill

  • Fruitful: Fruit Ripeness Detection App

  • Unlimited Field: Website with EEG Brain Computer Interface

More on projects page.

Education

  • Sep 2018 - May 2021

    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    • B.S.E. in Computer Science and Data Science

Experience

  • May 2020 - Present

    • Undergraduate Researcher, Fouhey AI Lab

  • February 2020 - June 2020

    • Machine Learning Intern, Fitly

  • August 2019 - April 2020

    • Applied Scientist, University of Michigan Alexa Prize Team

  • May 2019 - February 2020

    • Undergraduate Researcher, CSE University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • July 2018 - August 2018

    • Software Developer Intern, Danker

  • June 2017 - August 2017

    • Research Intern, NJIT CSTR

Awards and Honors

  • Undergraduate Scholarship from University of Michigan College of Engineering, 2018 - 2022