Zhihao Jia Assistant Professor Office 9007 Gates and Hillman Centers Email zhihao@cmu.edu Department Computer Science Department Administrative Support Person Tracy Farbacher Research Interests Artificial Intelligence Systems Advisees Zhuoming Chen Zikun Li Gabriele Oliaro Mengdi Wu Mingkuan Xu Zhihao Zhang Xinhao Cheng CSD Courses Taught 15418 - Fall, 2025 15618 - Fall, 2025 15418 - Fall, 2024 15618 - Fall, 2024 15642 - Spring, 2024 15442 - Spring, 2024 Biography I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where I work on computer systems and machine learning as part of CMU Catalyst Group and Parallel Data Lab. Before joining CMU, I was a research scientist at Facebook. I received my PhD from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2020, where I was co-advised by Alex Aiken and Matei Zaharia. Before coming to Stanford, I received my bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Special Pilot CS Class supervised by Andrew Yaoat Tsinghua University. I am interested in building systems for emerging application domains such as machine learning, quantum computing, and large-scale data analytics. In particular, my current research focuses on (1) accelerating deep learning computations on modern hardware platforms, and (2) optimizing quantum computations on today's intermediate-scale quantum devices.
