Mike Zhang

About

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen & the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Copenhagen, Denmark. My current research focus is on Multilingual LLM post-training, NLP applications, and the influence of AI on society.

Previously, I did a Postdoc at Aalborg University, where I worked on NLP and Education. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen, defending my thesis, “Computational Job Market Analysis with Natural Language Processing,” in March 2024. I am still very much interested in these topics, so please reach out!

Recent News

• Jul 2026I will go to ACL to present [1], [2], [3]. See you in San Diego! Feel free to reach out if you are interested in discussing these works.
• May 20263 papers accepted at ACL (Main, Findings, and Industry) on factual test-time scaling with knowledge graphs [1], language identification [2], and challenges and opportunities in KPI extraction from earnings calls [3]. Congrats to all authors!
• Jan 20261 paper accepted at ICLR on Kaleidoscope, a multilingual, multimodal exam dataset for evaluating MLLMs [1]. Congrats Isra!
• Dec 2025I have joined the University of Copenhagen to work with Desmond Elliott and Ali Basirat.

Selected Publications

• ArXiv · 2026 CroCo: Cross-Lingual Contrastive Preference Tuning on Self-Generations
  Mike Zhang, Ali Basirat, Desmond Elliott
  arXiv
• ACL Findings · 2026 Follow the Path: Reasoning over Knowledge Graph Paths to Improve Large Language Model Factuality
  Mike Zhang, Johannes Bjerva, Russa Biswas
  ACL Anthology
• NAACL · 2022 SkillSpan: Hard and Soft Skill Extraction from English Job Postings
  Mike Zhang, Kristian Nørgaard Jensen, Sif Dam Sonniks, Barbara Plank
  ACL Anthology

For the full and most up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar profile.

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