Luca Zhou
About Me
I am an incoming PhD candidate in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome with a passion for cutting-edge research in deep learning. I am currently focused on addressing scalability limitations of deep learning that hinder its practical application, as well as the weaknesses of current LLMs. I have previously been an exchange student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) and a visiting graduate student researcher at UC San Diego. Feel free to connect for collaborations or just to exchange ideas.
Research Interests
- Modular Deep Learning
- Model Merging
- Multitask Learning
- Time Series Analysis
- LLMs/VLMs
News
- [Jul. 2025] I’ve started a hybrid research internship at Panasonic North America on LLM code generation, collaborating with Stanford University and ItalAI.
- [Jul. 2025] I’ve graduated from Sapienza University of Rome with honors! Check out my thesis here.
- [Mar. 2025] I’m visiting the University of California San Diego as a visiting student researcher, working on a Multimodal Benchmark on Time Series Captioning & Understanding for VLMs, under the guidance of Prof. Rose Yu.
- [Nov. 2024] Our paper about multitask learning is available as a pre-print here!
