Welcome!
I’m a Ph.D. student in Statistics at Purdue University advised by Prof. Raymond A. Yeh in the Department of Computer Science. I’m also working with Dr. David Wipf and Mr. Tong He at AWS Shanghai AI Lab. I received my B.Sc. in Data Science at School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, where I was working with Prof. Yixuan Qiu.
I’m interested in deep generative models, graph machine learning, efficient and explainable AI. If you are interested in these topics, feel free to reach out!
News
Mar 2023: Invited speaker for Rising Star Lecture Series of A*STAR Center for Frontier AI Research (CFAR) link.
Oct 2022: I get NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award.
Sept 2022: Our paper Learning Manifold Dimensions with Conditional Variational Autoencoders(paper, code) is accepted by NeurIPS 2022!
Aug 2022: I’m on boarding at Purdue as a PhD student. Boiler up!!
Jun 2022: I’m awarded Shanghai Outstanding Graduate and Honours Degree at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics!
Feb 2022: I’m on boarding at AWS AI Lab in Shanghai as an Applied Scientist Intern.
Publications
- Yijia Zheng, Tong He, Yixuan Qiu, David Wipf. “Learning Manifold Dimensions with Conditional Variational Autoencoders” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (2022) (paper, code)
Invited Talks
Experience
- Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Web Services, Feb 2022 - Present
- Quantitative Research Intern, Kafang Tech, Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
- Research Assistant, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Education
- Ph.D. in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, 2022 - Present
- B.S. in Data Science, School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 2018 - 2022
Teaching
I’m a teaching assistant for:
- 2023 Spring: STAT 350 Introduction to Statistics
- 2022 Fall: STAT 511 Statistical Methods
Services
- Conference reviewer: NeurIPS 2023
Awards
- NeurIPS 2022, Scholar Award, 2022
- Shanghai Graduate Student with Honors, 2022
- First-class People’s Scholarship