Churan Zhi

I’m currently a Software Engineer on the Gemini in Chrome team at Google. I work on browser-use capabilities in Chrome and computer-use capabilities for Gemini and Gemini Spark. My research interests lie in enabling AI agents to browse the web and use computers with lower latency and greater reliability.

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Publications

^* Equal contribution.

H3M-SSMoEs: Hypergraph-based Multimodal Learning with LLM Reasoning and Style-Structured Mixture of Experts

Peilin Tan, Liang Xie, Churan Zhi, Dian Tu, Chuanqi Shi

MemoryArena: Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks

Zexue He^*, Yu Wang^*, Churan Zhi^*, Yuanzhe Hu^*, Tzu-Ping Chen^*, Lang Yin^*, Ze Chen, Tong Arthur Wu, Siru Ouyang, Zihan Wang, Jiaxin Pei, Julian McAuley, Yejin Choi, Alex Pentland

DenseMixer: Improving MoE Post-Training with Precise Router Gradients

Feng Yao, Junxia Cui, Ruohan Zhang, Liyuan Liu, Shibo Hao, Li Zhang, Chengyu Dong, Churan Zhi, Shuohang Wang, Yelong Shen, Jianfeng Gao, Jingbo Shang

BiasFreeBench: A Benchmark for Mitigating Bias in Large Language Model Responses

Xin Xu, Xunzhi He^*, Churan Zhi^*, Ruizhe Chen, Julian McAuley, Zexue He

MixWeaver: Stem-aware Automatic DJ Transition Generation via Structured Discrete Optimization

Xuran Zhou, Xunyi Jiang, Churan Zhi, Junda Wu, Julian McAuley

Confusing Pair Correction Based on Category Prototype for Domain Adaptation under Noisy Environments

Churan Zhi, Junbao Zhuo, Shuhui Wang

Education

M.S.

Sep 2024 — Mar 2026

University of California, San Diego

M.S. in Computer Science · San Diego, CA

Advisor: Julian McAuley

Teaching Assistant · CSE 153/253: Machine Learning for Music · Mar 2025 — Jun 2025

B.S.

Sep 2020 — Jun 2024

Beijing Jiaotong University

B.S. in Computer Science · Beijing, China

Advisors: Junbao Zhuo, Shuhui Wang

Research Assistant · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Feb 2022 — Aug 2023
Visual Information Processing and Learning (VIPL) Research Group · Beijing, China