Zack Berger

Zack

Welcome!

I'm a second-year PhD student at MIT EECS, advised by John Guttag and Collin Stultz. My work is supported by the DoD NDSEG Fellowship.

Previously, I was a software engineer at Google working on generative AI infrastructure. I completed my BS in computer science at UCLA, where I worked with Amit Sahai and was a research assistant with the Vision Lab.

I'm also a jazz pianist and comedian! Check me out on Moonshine and Vibe Box.

Contact: z<last> [at] mit [dot] edu


         

Teaching

I taught a seminar called Demystifying Computer Science, an approachable end-to-end look at CS principles for non-STEM students. The lectures are available on YouTube.

Papers

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Position: Evaluation of ECG Representations Must Be Fixed
Zachary Berger, Daniel Prakah-Asante, John Guttag, and Collin M. Stultz.
ICML, 2026   [Website]  [arXiv]  [Code]
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DOCCI: Descriptions of Connected and Contrasting Images
Yasumasa Onoe, Sunayana Rane, Zachary Berger, Yonatan Bitton, Jaemin Cho, Roopal Garg, Alexander Ku, Zarana Parekh, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Garrett Tanzer, Su Wang, and Jason Baldridge.
ECCV, 2024   [Website]  [arXiv] 
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Stereoscopic universal perturbations across different architectures and datasets
Zachary Berger, Parth Agrawal, Tian Yu Liu, Stefano Soatto, and Alex Wong.
CVPR, 2022   [Journal]  [arXiv]  [Code]