Zhongming Zuo

zhongming.zuo (at) duke.edu

About Me

I am currently a second-year MSCS (Master of Science in Computer Science) student at Duke University (expected graduation: May 2026). Previously, I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Nanjing University in 2020.

Experience

Work

Software Engineer Intern

May 2025 - Aug 2025

WeRide

Implemented a local pullover module for autonomous vehicles to safely pull over in the event of global planner failure.
Optimized routing and pickup-point locating algorithms, effectively improving QPS for the routing service.

C++
Autonomous Driving
Routing
Graph Algorithms
K8s

Research

Junior Research Assistant

Jul 2023 - Feb 2024

Database Systems Lab. Advised by Prof. Sibo Wang.

Proposed a novel vertex sampling method for the butterfly counting problem on bipartite graphs. Utilized this method to design algorithms for three different data streaming models.
Unpublished Manuscript: Effective Approximation Algorithms for Butterfly Counting in Bipartite Graph Streams. Fangyuan Zhang, Zhongming Zuo, Qintian Guo, Rui Zhang, Sibo Wang.

C++
Approximation Algorithms
Streaming Algorithms
Graph Algorithms
Big Data Analytics

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2026 - Present

Duke CompSci 527: Introduction to Computer Vision (26 Spring)

Selected Projects

SyncNote - Collaborative Note Application

A collaborative Markdown editor featuring GitLab OAuth, sharing/co-editing, and live preview/syntax highlighting.

Nuxt
Vue
MongoDB
CI/CD
K8s

private

LLM Fine-Tuning & Evaluation

An end-to-end fine-tuning & evaluation pipeline for gemma-3-270m, targeting abilities across factual QA, reasoning, and instruction following.

PyTorch
HuggingFace Transformers
RAG

private

Frontdesk - Assistance Platform for Duke Hospital

An iOS App for medical trainees and faculty of Duke Hospital to facilitate information entry, communication, evaluation, and scheduling.

SwiftUI
Vapor
PostgreSQL

code

Compiler Design and Implementation

A robust C compiler incorporating lexical analysis, syntax analysis, semantic analysis, IR generation, IR optimization, and code generation.

C
Lexer
Parser
IR generation/optimization

code