Weizhi Zhang

Prefer to call me Wiz or David.

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Sunrise Serenity.

Snapshot in the middle of nowhere in USA - Sep. 2023.

Hi! Glad to meet you here. :wave: Currently, I am pursuing my Computer Science Ph.D degree under the supervision of Prof. Philip S. Yu in BDSC lab at University of Illinois Chicago. I am also working as a Research Scientist Intern at Meta. Previously, I was an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon, and I accomplished my bachelor degree at University of Glasgow and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

My research interests includes Personalization, Recommendation, LLM, and Agents. :blush: Feel free to drop me an Email for any form of communication or collaboration! :handshake:

Outside of research, I’m an outdoor enthusiast who loves hiking :hiking_boot:, road trips :triangular_flag_on_post:, and skiing :ski:. I’m currently learning tennis :tennis: and always excited to pick up new sports. As an ENFJ, I enjoy connecting with people: feel free to reach out for an in-person chat or outdoor activities! :camping:

news

Aug 29, 2025 :tada::tada::tada: Our workshop proposal on “Personalization in the Era of Large Foundation Models” (PerFM) has been accepted at AAAI 2026! Welcome to submit your work to PerFM 2026! :hourglass_flowing_sand:
Aug 20, 2025 :tada::tada::tada: Three papers (RAG-Reasoning Survey, WebAgent-R1, MLLMs Bench) have been accepted by EMNLP 2025. Congrats to all collaborators! :clap:
Aug 14, 2025 Meta Give a talk on “Talk-to-Video: User Preference Alignment via Explicit Feedback” in Video Recommendation Team (Reels) at Meta! :open_hands:
Aug 13, 2025 Meta Give a talk on “Towards Efficient and Scalable Graph Recommendation” in Modern Recommendation System Team (MRS) at Meta! :open_hands:
Aug 06, 2025 CohereCohere Give a talk on “Towards Efficient and Scalable Graph Recommendation” [Post] in Retrieval and Search Team at Cohere Labs :open_hands:
Jul 17, 2025 :rocket::rocket::rocket: Our RAG-Reasoning Survey has been featured as Hugging Face Daily Paper with highest endorsement on July 17th 2025! Thanks for the community support! :raised_hands:
Jul 03, 2025 :tada::tada::tada: One paper SGCL has been accepted to RecSys 2025. Congrats to all collaborators! :clap:
Jun 02, 2025 Meta Join Meta as a Research Scientist Intern starting from this summer :camping:. See you in Bellevue!
May 28, 2025 Salesforce Attend the AI Research Future Forum hosted by Salesforce AI Research Team in Chicago, and give a talk on “When LLM Agents Meet Personalization” :open_hands:
May 15, 2025 :tada::tada::tada: Two papers (TestNUC, TABGEN-ICL) have been accepted by ACL. Congrats to all collaborators! :clap:
Jan 20, 2025 :tada::tada::tada: One paper ODE-CF has been accepted to The Web Conference (WWW) 2025. Congrats to all collaborators! :clap:
Dec 30, 2024 Amazon Join Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern starting from this winter :snowflake:. See you in Seattle!
Aug 04, 2024 :tada::tada::tada: OpenAI researcher access program is awarded.
Jul 16, 2024 :tada::tada::tada: One paper LightGODE has been accepted in CIKM 2024. In this work, we challenge the necessity of graph convolution in the recommender systems and propose LightGODE for extremely efficient and large-scale graph recommendation. Welcome to check :eyes: our released code.
May 27, 2024 :fire::fire::fire: My personal website is lauched . :sparkles: :smile: