Ruizhe Zhang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Ruizhe Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA. He completed his Ph.D. at UT Austin in 2023. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science. His current research focuses on al… ↓More
Joined department: Fall 2025
Research Areas
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing
- Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing
Education
PhD, The University of Texas at Austin, Computer Science (2023)
Ruizhe Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA. He completed his Ph.D. at UT Austin in 2023.
He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science. His current research focuses on algorithmic problems in quantum computing, optimization, and machine learning theory, with applications to scientific computing and engineering.