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Southern Methodist University
6425 Boaz Lane
Dallas, Texas 75205
I am an undergraduate researcher at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Tx. I major in Computer Science B.S., Mathematics B.A. and Data Science B.S.. I am working with Dr. Mehak Gupta for her current research in deep learning and natural language processing with applications in healthcare, where my responsibility has been fine-tuning LLM with interview transcripts for personality and disorder detection.
I am looking for a Ph.D. program in Computer Science, with a focus on Machine Learning Theory and Natural Language Processing.
I also have an individual study session on Recommender System applied in University Schema mentored by Dr. Michael Hahsler of Computer Science at the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering, and Dr. Peter Moore
of Mathematics at the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences.
My works can be found here:
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Publications: OpenReview
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Software Development: Github
Research Interest
- Machine Learning Theory
- Natural Language Processing
- Recommender System
- Neural Network
- Data Mining
Publications
- Under Review: submission to COLING 2025 through ACL ARR June 2024 (3rd Author)
- Under Review: submission to Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (2nd Author)
- To be Submitted: submission to Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
Contact
- Email: jerryma@smu.edu
- LinkedIn: Zerui Ma
Current Courses
- Mathematics of Machine Learning
- Machine Learning in Python
- Algorithm Engineering
- Software Engineering
My favorite quote:
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs

Southern Methodist University
6425 Boaz Lane
Dallas, Texas 75205
I am an undergraduate researcher at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Tx. I major in Computer Science B.S., Mathematics B.A. and Data Science B.S.. I am working with Dr. Mehak Gupta for her current research in deep learning and natural language processing with applications in healthcare, where my responsibility has been fine-tuning LLM with interview transcripts for personality and disorder detection.
I am looking for a Ph.D. program in Computer Science, with a focus on Machine Learning Theory and Natural Language Processing.
I also have an individual study session on Recommender System applied in University Schema mentored by Dr. Michael Hahsler of Computer Science at the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering, and Dr. Peter Moore
of Mathematics at the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences.
My works can be found here:
-
Publications: OpenReview
-
Software Development: Github
Research Interest
- Machine Learning Theory
- Natural Language Processing
- Recommender System
- Neural Network
- Data Mining
Publications
- Under Review: submission to COLING 2025 through ACL ARR June 2024 (3rd Author)
- Under Review: submission to Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (2nd Author)
- To be Submitted: submission to Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
Contact
- Email: jerryma@smu.edu
- LinkedIn: Zerui Ma
Current Courses
- Mathematics of Machine Learning
- Machine Learning in Python
- Algorithm Engineering
- Software Engineering
My favorite quote:
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs