Zhihao Jia

Zhihao Jia

Assistant Professor

Website

Office

9007 Gates and Hillman Centers

Email

Department

Computer Science Department

Administrative Support

Emily Spencer

Research Areas

Advisees

Zhuoming Chen

Zikun Li

Gabriele Oliaro

Mengdi Wu

Xinhao Cheng

CSD Courses Taught

15442 - Spring, 2026

15642 - Spring, 2026

Biography

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where I work on computer systems and machine learning as part of CMU Catalyst Group and Parallel Data Lab. Before joining CMU, I was a research scientist at Facebook. I received my PhD from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2020, where I was co-advised by Alex Aiken and Matei Zaharia. Before coming to Stanford, I received my bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Special Pilot CS Class supervised by Andrew Yaoat Tsinghua University.

I am interested in building systems for emerging application domains such as machine learning, quantum computing, and large-scale data analytics. In particular, my current research focuses on (1) accelerating deep learning computations on modern hardware platforms, and (2) optimizing quantum computations on today's intermediate-scale quantum devices.