Zilong Zhao

Postdoc
Email: Z.Zhao-8@tudelft.nl
Distributed Intelligent Systems Lab
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Delft University of Technology

About Me

I'm a Postdoc in EECS at TU Delft since Jul. 2020, where I collaborate with Prof. Lydia Y. Chen. I received my PhD at GIPSA-lab of the University of Grenoble Alpes between 2017 and 2020. I worked on integrating control theory into the machine learning (ML) algorithm in collaboration with IBM Zurich research lab. I also had experience working as a data engineer lead and data scientist for Miro Health (a San Francisco digital health start-up). I optimized a speech recognition system into iOS system, use ML algorithms to analyze mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients' data, in collaboration with John Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA.

My current research is focused on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for tabular data and training GANs in privacy-preserving environments. I am currently in charge of a pioneer research collaboration between our group and Tampere University. Our goal is to use GANs to learn and generate molecules under specific conditions. I also co-founded a startup Generatrix, which won two grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Thematic Technology Transfer - Smart Industries (TTT-SI) program. Generatrix works on synthetic data generation.

Honors & Awards

  • NWO Grant: Co-applicant of Project: Tabular Data Synthesizer, won award in special cybersecurity roundTake-off, 40K Euro. Take-off is a funding instrument from NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences forresearchers who want to market their innovative knowledge.
  • TTT-SI Grant: Co-applicant of Project: Generatrix (formerly known as Tabular Data Synthesizer), wonThematic Technology Transfer - Smart Industries (TTT-SI) grant, 25K Euro. This program joins the 4 technicaluniversities (Delft, Eindhoven, Twente, Wageningen) and TNO on value creation in Smart Systems.
  • FAPESP Scholarship: Fellowship to the São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Learning from Data. Selected 100 out of 670 applications from the researchers all over the world.
  • DSN Travel Grant: Student travel grant for 49th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systemsand Networks (DSN 2019).
  • Explora Sup Scholarship Auverge-Rhône-Alpes Council Grant for international internship.

Experiences

  • Miro Health: Data Engineer Lead (San Francisco, USA (Remote))
  • VISEO: Software Engineer Intern (Grenoble, France)
  • UFRGS: Research Intern (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

TPC

  • The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) conference 2021
  • The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies 2021
  • The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid) 2022

Reviewers

  • ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) 2020&2021, Middleware 2019&2021, International World Wide Web conference (WWW) 2020, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2020, 21st (International Federation of Automatic Control) IFAC World Congress (IFAC) 2020. IJCAI 2020. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). DSN 2022, SRDS 2022.

News

We are happy to announce that Generatrix enters the Semi-Final of The European Social Innovation Competition! (On-going)

Aug. 16, 2021

Check here.