👋 Hi! I’m a final year computer science PhD candidate at Northwestern University working with Dr. Andrew Crotty on data management systems with focus on AI-assisted sequence data processing and indexing.
I completed my B.S. in computational statistics and data sciences at the Pennsylvania State University from 2016 to 2020. During my undergraduate studies, I was advised by Dr. Ting Wang for doing researches in security and privacy of deep learning based systems. Previously, I worked as a bioinformatics programmer at the Mahony Lab where I had pleasure working with a group of genius researchers from May till Dec, 2019.
ICDE ‘26: “DeepSketch: A Query Sketching Tool for Discovering Temporal Relationships in Large Time Series Datasets“. Zheng Zhang, Runzhe Jiang, Andrew Crotty
VLDB ‘24: “DeepSketch: A Query Sketching Interface for Deep Time Series Similarity Search“. Zheng Zhang, Joey Shao, Andrew Crotty
IEEE EuroS&P ‘22: “TrojanZoo: Towards Unified, Holistic, and Practical Evaluation of Neural Backdoors“. Ren Pang, Zheng Zhang, Xiangshan Gao, Zhaohan Xi, Shouling Ji, Peng Cheng, Xiaopu Luo and Ting Wang. Paper GitHub
IEEE EuroS&P ‘21: “Trojaning Language Models for Fun and Profit“. Xinyang Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Shouling Ji, and Ting Wang. Paper Slide
2021 - Present, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2016 - 2020, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
During my free time, I ride (motorcycle), draw (mostly sketches), and photoshoot. If you’re interested, you can find my previous drawings and photographs.
Most recent update: Jun, 2026