Eric Zhao

Eric Zhao

I'm a fourth year PhD candidate in computer science at UC Berkeley, where I'm advised by Michael I. Jordan and Nika Haghtalab. I'm a Google PhD Fellow, a NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and affiliated with the Berkeley AI Research Lab (BAIR).

My current research focuses on applying large language models to reasoning problems in low-resource domains where verification is difficult, such as solving open problems in niche theoretical topics. I'm also more generally interested in developing conceptual foundations for multi-domain intelligence; my theoretical research analyzes mathematical frameworks for provable multi-domain machine learning, including multi-distribution learning and calibrated forecasting.

I received my B.S. from Caltech in 2020 and previously interned with Google Research, Nvidia Research, and Salesforce Research.

Selected Works

(α-β) denotes when authors are ordered alphabetically.

  • Sample, Scrutinize and Scale: Effective Inference-Time Search by Scaling Verification Eric Zhao, Pranjal Awasthi, Sreenivas Gollapudi
    PDF Blog Preprint, Jan 2025
  • Algorithmic Content Selection and the Impact of User Disengagement (α-β) Emilio Calvano, Nika Haghtalab, Ellen Vitercik, Eric Zhao
    PDF Blog Preprint, Feb 2024
  • A Unifying Perspective on Multi-Calibration: Game Dynamics for Multi-Objective Learning (α-β) Nika Haghtalab, Michael I. Jordan, Eric Zhao
    PDF NeurIPS 2023
  • On-Demand Sampling: Learning Optimally from Multiple Distributions (α-β) Nika Haghtalab, Michael I. Jordan, Eric Zhao
    PDF Blog NeurIPS 2022

Selected Awards

  • Google PhD Fellowship (2024)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2023)
  • NeurIPS Best Paper Award (2022)

Contact

eric.zh@berkeley.edu