Gage DeZoort

Physics × AI Researcher

Machine learning researcher and physicist specializing in graph neural networks, graph transformers, and scalable deep learning for scientific data. I build principled architectures with an emphasis on optimization stability, hyperparameter transfer, and robust inference.

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Portrait of Gage DeZoort

Selected work

QM9 results showing learning-rate transfer across GNN sizes and improving train loss and validation MAE as models scale

Hyperparameter Transfer in Graph Neural Networks 2026

Gage DeZoort and Boris Hanin

A recipe for scaling up GNNs using a hyperparameter transfer parameterization.
Test accuracy versus depth on Cora and stochastic block models, comparing vanilla GNNs with residual aggregation and residual connections

Principles for Initialization and Architecture Selection in Graph Neural Networks 2025

Gage DeZoort and Boris Hanin

Training deep GNNs through careful initialization, mitigating oversmoothing, and overcoming correlation collapse.
Detector cross-section showing particle tracks, tracker hits, and calorimeter layers

Graph Neural Networks at the Large Hadron Collider 2023

Surveying state of the art GNNs applied to a broad range of particle physics tasks.

Heavy pseudoscalar Higgs search (A → Zh → ℓℓττ) 2025

Search for a heavy pseudoscalar Higgs boson in the full CMS Run 2 dataset.

Charged particle tracking via interaction networks 2021

Charged particle tracking via edge-classifying GNNs.

Selected tutorials

Gage DeZoort teaching a practical machine learning crash course at UC Irvine

Crash Course in Practical ML 2025

A three-day crash course at UC Irvine on practical ML, from classical methods to CNNs, GNNs, and transformers.
Students following along during the Princeton graph neural networks workshop

Graph Neural Networks for Your Research 2023

A hands-on Princeton Research Computing workshop on applying graph neural networks to scientific research.

Creative Side Quests

Guitar has been a lifelong hobby. I keep a public profile of my playing at @gagedezoort.music.

Gage DeZoort performing live on guitar
Gage DeZoort playing a progressive metal set
Gage DeZoort playing bass under stage lights

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