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Dr. Zhao Zhang is a compute scientist at Texas Advanced Computing Center. His current research focuses scalable deep learning on supercomputers. Dr. Zhang's past work include astronomy data processing with Apache Spark, machine learning diagnostics, and I/O optimization for many-task computing applications on supercomputers, such as Argonne's IBM Blue Gene/P. Before joining TACC, Dr. Zhang was a postdoc researcher in AMPLab and a data science fellow at Berkeley Institute for Data Science at University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Michael J. Franklin. He received Ph.D in computer science from University of Chicago in 2014 under supervision of Prof. Ian T. Foster.