Mike Zhou

mikezhou [at] seas [dot] upenn [dot] edu

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I’m a Software Engineer on the Research & Development team at Angle Health and a researcher affiliated with the Cognitive Computation Group at the University of Pennsylvania, led by Prof. Dan Roth. I’m broadly interested in representation learning — how to build representations that support reasoning, generalization, and adaptive behavior.

During my undergraduate years at Penn, I was fortunate to work with Professors Dan Roth, Michael Kearns, and Ryan Cotterell, all of whom shaped my interest in AI. I was also drawn to arithmetic combinatorics, which still informs how I think about structure in learning.

latest posts

selected publications

  1. Program-of-Thought Reveals LLM Abstraction Ceilings
    Mike Zhou , Fenil Bardoliya , Vivek Gupta , and 1 more author
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL , 2026
  2. Can Transformers Learn n-gram Language Models?
    Anej Svete , Nadav Borenstein , Mike Zhou , and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , 2024