I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning. I completed my PhD in Statistics at Cornell University, where I was advised by Chris De Sa.
I am looking for highly motivated students (PhD, MS, undergrads, and interns) to join my lab. If you are interested, feel free to reach out.
I am interested in building scalable, reliable and efficient probabilistic models for machine learning and data science. Currently, I focus on developing fast and robust inference methods with theoretical guarantees and their applications with deep neural networks on real-world big data.
Wanrong Zhang, Ruqi Zhang International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023 [Paper]
Bolian Li, Ruqi Zhang Preprint [Paper]
Bowen Lei, Ruqi Zhang, Dongkuan Xu, Bani K Mallick International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023 [Paper][Code]
Yue Xiang, Dongyao Zhu, Bowen Lei, Dongkuan Xu, Ruqi Zhang International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2023 [Paper][Code]
Ziyu Wang, Yuhao Zhou, Ruqi Zhang, Jun Zhu ICBINB Workshop @ NeurIPS, 2022 [Paper]
Ruqi Zhang, Qiang Liu, Xin T. Tong Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022 [Paper]
Ruqi Zhang, Xingchao Liu, Qiang Liu International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022 [Paper] [Code][Video][Slides]
Ruqi Zhang, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Christopher De Sa International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022 [Paper] [Code][Video][Slides]
Ruqi Zhang, Yingzhen Li, Christopher De Sa, Sam Devlin, Cheng Zhang International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2021 [Paper]
Ruqi Zhang, A. Feder Cooper, Christopher De Sa Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020 Spotlight, acceptance rate 2.96% [Paper][Code][Video][Slides]
Ruqi Zhang, A. Feder Cooper, Christopher De Sa International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2020 [Paper] [Code]
Ruqi Zhang, Chunyuan Li, Jianyi Zhang, Changyou Chen, Andrew Gordon Wilson International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020 Oral, acceptance rate 1.85% [Paper] [Code][Video][Slides]
Ruqi Zhang, Christopher De Sa Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019 Spotlight, acceptance rate 2.43% [Paper] [Code] [Poster] [Slides]
Ruqi Zhang, Zhiwu Lu International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016 [Paper]
Invited talk at Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, November 2021 [Video][Slides]
Spotlight talk in Rising Stars in Data Science Workshop at University of Chicago, January 2021 Spotlight presentation at NeurIPS, December 2020 [Video][Slides]
Spotlight presentation at NeurIPS, December 2019 [Slides]
