Hi! I’m Runze (Randulf) Zhao (赵润泽), a first-year Computer Science PhD student at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) with fellowship, where I’m fortunate to work under the supervision of Prof. Dongruo Zhou. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Financial Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ), under the mentorship of Prof. Wenye Li.

Research Interests

I am deeply intrigued by the nexus of machine learning algorithms. My research focus includes but is not limited to:

• Advancing foundation of Reinforcement Learning
• Advancing conventional machine learning with optimization techniques: NeurIPS 2023

Academic Journey

Education

• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  • Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
  • Degree: Bachelor’s in Financial Engineering
  • Study Period: Sep. 2020 - Jul. 2024
• Indiana University Bloomington
  • Location: Bloomington, Indiana, United States
  • Degree: PhD in Computer Science
  • Study Period: Aug. 2024 - Jul. 2029 (expected)

Publications

• Boosting Spectral Clustering on Incomplete Data via Kernel Correction and Affinity Learning. [code][pdf][ppt][Poster]

Fangchen Yu, Runze Zhao, Zhan Shi, Yiwen Lu, Jicong Fan, Yicheng Zeng, Jianfeng Mao, Wenye Li. NeurIPS 2023

Service

• Associate Instructor: CSCI-B 455: Principles of Machine Learning for Spring 2025.
• Reviewer: L4DC 2025