Zhaozhuo Xu
Assistant Professor
Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
Department of Computer Science
Education
- PhD (2023) Rice University (Computer Science)
Research
Machine learning, randomized algorithms
General Information
Zhaozhuo Xu joined Stevens Institute of Technology in 2024 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He earned his Ph.D. from Rice University and was recognized with the AAAI 2025 New Faculty Highlights.
Professional Service
- The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Area Chair
Professional Societies
- IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Member
- AAAI – Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Member
Selected Publications
Conference Proceeding
- Pan, Y.; Chen, J.; Chen, J.; Xu, Z.; Zhang, D. (2025). Iterative Online-Offline Joint Optimization is Needed to Manage Complex LLM Copyright Risks. ICML 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning. ICML 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning.
- Zhang, D.; Xu, Z.; Zhao, W. (2025). LLMs and Copyright Risks: Benchmarks and Mitigation Approaches. NAACL Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of NAACL: Human Language Technologies (Volume 5: Tutorial) (pp. 44--50).
- Xu, J.; Li, S.; Xu, Z.; Zhang, D. (2024). Do LLMs Know to Respect Copyright Notice?. EMNLP 2024 (Main).
Journal Article
- Wu, Y.; Guo, W.; Liu, Z.; Ji, H.; Xu, Z.; Zhang, D. (2025). How large language models encode theory-of-mind: a study on sparse parameter patterns. NPJ Artificial Intelligence. Nature.
workshop
- Zhao, W.; Shao, H.; Xu, Z.; Duan, S.; Zhang, D. (2024). Measuring Copyright Risks of Large Language Model via Partial Information Probing. CIKM workshop on Data-centric AI.