Anthony Zhou

pic Hi! I'm Anthony Zhou, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University's MAIL Lab where I research machine learning methods for PDE solving and physics simulation. I enjoy combining numerical methods with deep learning to create fast and accessible engineering tools. In my free time I like to cook, go outside, or take pictures.

Publications

  • Predicting Change, Not States: An Alternate Framework for Neural PDE Surrogates
    Anthony Zhou, Amir Barati Farimani Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2025
  • Text2PDE: Latent Diffusion Models for Accessible Physics Simulation
    Anthony Zhou, Zijie Li, Michael Schneier, John R Buchanan Jr, Amir Barati Farimani International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
  • Generative Latent Neural PDE Solver using Flow Matching
    Zijie Li, Anthony Zhou, Amir Barati Farimani Preprint, 2025
  • Strategies for Pretraining Neural Operators
    Anthony Zhou, Cooper Lorsung, AmirPouya Hemmasian, Amir Barati Farimani Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024
  • Masked Autoencoders are PDE Learners
    Anthony Zhou, Amir Barati Farimani Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024
  • CaFA: Global Weather Forecasting with Factorized Attention on Sphere
    Zijie Li, Anthony Zhou, Saurabh Patil, Amir Barati Farimani Preprint, 2024
  • FaultFormer: Pretraining Transformers for Adaptable Bearing Fault Classification
    Anthony Zhou, Amir Barati Farimani IEEE Access, 2024
  • The Variable Stiffness Treadmill 2: Development and Validation of a Unique Tool to Investigate Locomotion on Compliant Terrains
    Vaughn Chambers, Bradley Hobbs, William Gaither, Zachary Thé, Anthony Zhou, Chrysostomos Karakasis, Panagiotis Artemiadis Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2025