Ziwei Zhao

B.Sc. student, Technical University of Munich

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Ziway · live my own way

Munich, Germany

ziwei.zhao@tum.de

I am a B.Sc. student in Information Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. In 2025 I was a visiting student at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, where I worked closely with Prof. Yanbiao Ma and Prof. Wenxuan Wang.

My research goal is to make machine-learning models reliable under imperfect data and distribution shift — to measure where they fail, give their predictions statistically valid guarantees, and carry those guarantees into the systems built on top of them. Concretely, I work on fairness and calibration in long-tailed and federated learning, safety evaluation of LLMs and agentic systems, and I am increasingly drawn to causal representation learning and post-training (RLHF/alignment) as the next step. Recurring thread: diagnose the failure, guarantee the fix, and make it survive deployment.

I am applying for Ph.D. programs (Fall 2027) and am open to research collaborations. Please feel free to reach out at ziwei.zhao@tum.de. My full list of papers is on Google Scholar, and PDFs are linked from the publications page.

news

Aug 15, 2026 ScopeBench was accepted to EMNLP 2026 (Main Conference) — a cultural-norm-scope safety benchmark for LLMs. 🎉
Jan 20, 2026 Our paper MessToClean was accepted to ACL 2026 (Main Conference). 🎉
Dec 15, 2025 HeartBridge won Global 3rd Place at the Baidu ERNIE Open-Source Hackathon, where I served as Tech Lead.
Aug 01, 2025 Started a research visit at the Gaoling School of AI, Renmin University of China (RUC GSAI).

selected publications

  1. PR (under review)
    Information Density Imbalance in Visual Object Detection
    Ziwei Zhao, Yanxi Lu, Yuwei Hu, and 8 more authors
    Under review at Pattern Recognition, 2026
  2. EMNLP 2026
    ScopeBench: Evaluating Cultural Norm Scope Awareness in LLMs
    Haojun Liang, Ziwei Zhao, Chenyu Li, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Main Conference, 2026
  3. ACL 2026
    MessToClean: Evidence-Grounded Structure-Preserving Reconstruction for Real-World Degraded Exam Paper Images
    Jiayi Tuo, Cheng Tang, Zihan Wang, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Main Conference, 2026
  4. KDD-W 2026
    Skill-as-API: Confidential Multi-Agent Coordination for Agentic Software Engineering
    Ziwei Zhao, Yu Gu, Haojun Liang, and 2 more authors
    In KDD 2026 Workshop, 2026
  5. Drones
    Uncertainty-Calibrated UAV Trajectory Prediction for Beam Management in UAV-Assisted ISAC Scenarios
    Qing Cheng, Wenwen Wu, and Ziwei Zhao
    Drones, 2026
  6. arXiv
    Geometric Prior-Guided Federated Prompt Calibration
    Fei Luo, Ziwei Zhao, Mingxuan Wang, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07208, 2025