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I am a fourth-year PhD student at Rutgers University. I'm fortunate to be advised by Prof. Karl Stratos. I received M.S. in CS from Rutgers in Spring 2021. Prior to RU, I graduated from University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in Applied Physics. My research broadly lies in Natural Language Processing. Currently, my research tends towards Retrieval Augmented Generation, Knowledge-intensive Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Coreference Resolution, but I remain open to exploring other research directions.

I am actively seeking research scientist or engineer roles. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to discuss opportunities.

Publications

Seq2seq is All You Need for Coreference Resolution

Wenzheng Zhang, Sam Wiseman, Karl Stratos. EMNLP 2023. [code]

Improving Multitask Retrieval by Promoting Task Specialization

Wenzheng Zhang, Chenyan Xiong, Karl Stratos, Arnold Overwijk. TACL 2023. [code]

EntQA: Entity Linking as Question Answering

Wenzheng Zhang, Wenyue Hua, Karl Stratos. ICLR 2022 Spotlight . [code]

Understanding Hard Negatives in Noise Contrastive Estimation

Wenzheng Zhang, Karl Stratos. NAACL 2021. [code]

Academic Internships

Microsoft Research

worked with Prof. Chenyan Xiong and Arnold Overwijk, Jun 2022 -- Sep 2022

Meta FAIR

worked with Dr. Mingda Chen, Dr. Scott Yih and Dr. Victoria Lin, May 2024 -- Current