
Hi! I’m Michael Zhang, a second-year PhD student at the University of Toronto and Vector Institute, supervised by Jimmy Ba. Much of my current research is on understanding loss landscapes and algorithms for deep learning optimization. I am also interested in reinforcement learning and continual learning.
I did my undergrad and MS at UC Berkeley and worked in Pieter Abbeel’s group.
Outside of academic pursuits, I enjoy basketball, frisbee, hiking, swimming, and running (pretty much every sport!).
You can reach me at firstname at cs.toronto.edu.