Muge Zhang

I am Muge Zhang, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, broadly interested in multimodal large language models, reasoning, and retrieval-augmented systems. I am advised by Sachin Kumar, and I am fortunate to work with him. I aim to understand how models access information, reason over it, and ultimately become more reliable and useful for real-world tasks.

My current focus is on exploring ways to improve the connection between retrieval and reasoning, support multilingual and cross-modal understanding, and develop methods that help LLMs handle complex, structured inputs. More generally, I hope to contribute to building AI systems that integrate strong reasoning with practical utility for everyday users.

Research Interests

• Multimodal Large Language Models
• Reasoning and Inference
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Multilingual and Cross-modal Understanding
• Complex Information Processing