Cyrus Zhou

PhD Student in Computer Science, Stanford University

About

I am a Computer Science PhD student at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Monica S. Lam. I am affiliated with the Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab and the Stanford NLP Group. My research combines formal methods with large language models to tackle domains with complex structure, such as healthcare and biomedicine. I build end-to-end systems that are deployed in real-world settings, with a focus on reliability and precision. Previously, I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.

Selected Publications

Scalable High-Recall Constraint-Satisfaction-Based Information Retrieval for Clinical Trials Matching Cyrus Zhou, Yufei Jin*, Yilin Xu*, Yu-Chiang Wang, Chieh-Ju Chao, Monica S. Lam Preprint, 2026
LowRA: Accurate and Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning of LLMs under 2 Bits Cyrus Zhou, Qizheng Zhang, Hermann Kumbong, Kunle Olukotun ICML, 2025
If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try, Again...? Insights and LLM-informed Tooling for Detecting Retry Bugs in Software Systems Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Utsav Sethi, Yiming Su, Cyrus Zhou, Shan Lu, Jonathan Mace, Madanlal Musuvathi, Suman Nath SOSP, 2024
Helping Users Debug Trigger-Action Programs Lefan Zhang, Cyrus Zhou, Michael L. Littman, Blase Ur, Shan Lu UbiComp, 2023

Awards

Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship (Enlight Foundation), 2024
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Honorable Mention, 2024
John Locke Institute Essay Competition, Psychology Prize Winner, 2019