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  study learning and decision-making under uncertainty, feedback, and interaction, with an emphasis on methods that are both principled and practically deployable. My work aims to build AI systems that are efficient, trustworthy, collaborative, scalable, and robust in real-world environments. More recently, I have been applying these tools to biomedical data analysis and embodied AI, where reliability, adaptation, and decision-making are central.

Prospective PhD students: I am not recruiting new PhD students for the 2026–2027 application cycle. Thank you for your interest.