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Tian Zhao

  • Associate Professor, Computer Science

Education

  • PhD, Purdue University, 2002

Research Interests

  • Type systems
  • Programming language semantics
  • Domain specific programming
  • Machine learning systems

Publications

  • Anisha Tasnim and Tian Zhao, ``The Semantics of Entity Component System", ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 5 - 20, 2026
  • Khaled Alrfou and Tian Zhao, ``GC-UNet: Efficient Network for Medical Image Segmentation'', Multimedia Tools and Applications, 85:137 (2026)
  • Xavier Adettu and Tian Zhao. ``StageML: Partial Evaluation for Multi-Tenant MoE-LoRA Inference''. Proceedings of the 1st Joint Symposium of Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation + Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (LOPSTR+PPDP 2026), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, August 27-29 2026.
  • Divakar Yadav and Tian Zhao. ``Hybrid JIT--CUDA Graph Optimization for Low-Latency Large Language Model Inference''. Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (CompSAC'26), 2026 July 07; Madrid, Spain.
  • Divakar Yadav, Tian Zhao, and Deepak Kumar. ``Evaluating CUDA Tile for AI Workloads on Hopper and Blackwell GPUs''. Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (CompSAC'26), 2026 July 07; Madrid, Spain.
  • Lei Yao and Tian Zhao. ``Agent-Orchestrated Federated Representation Learning for Non-IID Data''. Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (CompSAC'26), 2026 July 07; Madrid, Spain.
  • Jesse Pokora and Tian Zhao. ``Grounded Physics Representations Enable Robust Causal Reasoning in Language Models''.  Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (CompSAC'26), 2026 July 07; Madrid, Spain.