Collaborate or work with me
Please email me at wangzhu at berkeley dot edu with the tag [seeking collaboration] in your subject line. University spam filters are aggressive, so external messages without this tag often end up in my spam folder.
For research collaborators
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I’m flexible about what counts as a good project.
I’m drawn to two complementary kinds of work:
- Interesting and novel from a CS perspective (e.g., Precise Debugging Benchmark, PSALM, Chain-of-Questions, BabyWalk).
- Less novel from a CS perspective but solving real problems for other fields (e.g., Cancer-Myth, PSALM-V, PDDL-Mind).
- I have experience working across multiple domains: multimodal, healthcare, social/cognitive science, embodied, robotics and coding. So, I’m a natural fit for cross-disciplinary projects that need LLM/NLP expertise grounded in your domain.
- I take feedback seriously and iterate quickly. I respond promptly in asynchronous collaborations, and much of my best work has emerged from tight feedback loops with collaborators.
For undergraduate or Master’s students looking for a mentor
- I love mentoring students. Even as agents grow stronger and make individual work more efficient, the best ideas still come out of sustained conversation with people who are learning together.
- I’m happy to match your interests with faculty I know once I’m impressed with your work. Several of my mentees have moved on to Ph.D.s or longer collaborations with other groups this way.
- That said, please be clear about the contribution you can make to the project and bring strong self-motivation and commitment to the project. Research is a long road; I can guide and push back, but I can’t replace the drive that has to come from you.