Zhun Deng 

Hi! I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, hosted by Toniann Pitassi and Richard Zemel. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Harvard University under the guidance of Cynthia Dwork. Prior to Harvard, I received my B.Sc. in Mathematics from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University. 

My research sits at the frontier of AI and machine learning, with a focus on shaping how learning systems are designed, understood, and deployed. I am particularly interested in developing principled theoretical foundations that translate into practical tools, advancing learning systems that are not only efficient, but also reliable, collaborative, and scalable. More recently, I have been interested in deploying these tools to biomedical data and embodied AI.