Zhanghu Zhao

I am a Doctoral Researcher in the Probabilistic Machine Learning Group at Aalto University, supervised by Prof. Samuel Kaski. I develop amortized methods for fast Bayesian inference, experimental design, and optimization.

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Research

Amortization moves the cost of inference and design into an offline training phase, so each new problem is answered immediately, fast enough to run in the loop.

Research interests

Amortized Inference
Networks trained once that infer for new problems in a single pass.
Bayesian Experimental Design
Choosing the next experiment adaptively, by how much it is expected to reveal.
Bayesian Optimization
Sample-efficient optimization of expensive black-box objectives.

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science
    Aalto University · 2026 – present · expected 2030
  • M.Sc. in Business Analytics
    Aalto University · 2024 – 2026
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science
    University of Helsinki · 2022 – 2024
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology
    Soochow University · 2017 – 2021