Tong Zhang (张潼)

Contact

2118 Siebel Center
201 N Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
(217) 244-6449
Email: tongzhang [at] tongzhang-ml [dot] org

Short Bio

Tong Zhang is a professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he was a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Rutgers University, and worked at IBM, Yahoo, Google, Baidu, and Tencent.

Tong Zhang's research interests include machine learning theory, algorithms, optimization, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and foundation-model alignment and reasoning. His recent work spans scalable optimization and sampling, LLM post-training and reward modeling, formal reasoning, and learning methods for web, multimodal, and embodied agents. He is a fellow of ASA, IEEE, and IMS, and he has served on the editorial boards of leading machine learning journals and program committees of top machine learning conferences.

Tong Zhang received a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.