Zehua Cheng

I obtained by Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. During my Ph.D. studies, I was gernoursly funded by Google Cloud Computing Research Grant, Alibaba Cloud (UK) Research Award, and Li Ka-shing Global Health Foundation. We are hiring research interns and looking for academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at zehua@flock.io.

We build autonomous agents that reason over distributed, high-stakes data (Bio & Finance) without ever centralizing it. We replace trust with cryptography and replace correlation with causal/structural reasoning. For more details, please refer to my WORKING PROJECTS.

Currently, I am leading AI research at FLock.io, where I focus on advancing decentralized ML systems. I am now cooperate with Prof. Jim Davies and Prof Ivan Martinovic from University of Oxford on Decentralized Machine Learning. I have several funded opportunities to support junior research positions at FLock.io and University of Oxford on related research topics.

Selected Awards:

• Championship at ACM. MM GrandChallenge in Multi-Modal Video Identification Track in 2019
• Championship at AWS Self-driving car racing challenge in 2021
• Third Prize at NeurIPS 2023: Open Catalyst Challenge
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022) Travel Grant
• AAAI 2024 Global Competition on Math Problem Solving and Reasoning Track 1 - Solution without API (3rd Prize) and Track 2 - Solution without API (2nd Prize).
• Second Prize at KDD Cup 2024 - OAG Challenge AQA.