Yifan Zhang
PhD Student, Computer Science
Yifan Zhang is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, under the supervision of Prof. Kevin J. Leach and Prof. Yu Huang at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS). He is also jointly pursuing the Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Vanderbilt & GaTech, he earned his B.A., B.Eng., and M.Eng. from China University of Petroleum at Beijing and worked as a machine learning engineer at the Intelligent Risk Management Lab at JD.COM. He has also worked as a research associate at the University of Hong Kong and Duke University. His research interests lie in AI for programming languages (AI4Code), code representation learning, cognitive process in software engineering, binary code analysis, and medical imaging.