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zhayi0928{at}gmail.com

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I am a Senior Researcher in the Machine Learning Foundations group at Microsoft Research Redmond.

I did my Ph.D. at Princeton University where I was privileged to be advised by Sanjeev Arora.  I received the
 Wallace Memorial Fellowship in Engineering,
one of the highest honors awarded to Ph.D. students. Prior to Princeton, I received one Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and another one from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where I was advised by Honglak Lee.

I am a proud dad of a 2-year-old
ultra-cute Shiba Inu named Lambo. He goes by Bobo or 啵啵, at his insistence.

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Research

(#)Yi Zhang, Arushi Gupta, Nikunj Saunshi, Sanjeev Arora

ICLR 2022

Spotlight

(#) Zhiyuan Li, Yi Zhang, Sanjeev Arora

ICLR 2021

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(#) Yi Zhang*, Orestis Plevrakis*, Simon S. Du, Xingguo Li, Zhao Song, and Sanjeev Arora

NeurIPS 2020

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Udaya Ghai, Holden Lee, Karan Singh, Cyril Zhang, and Yi Zhang

COLT 2020

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(#) Nikunj Saunshi, Yi Zhang, Mikhail Kohdak, and Sanjeev Arora

ICML 2020

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Mark Braverman, Xinyi Chen, Sham M. Kakade, Karthik Narasimhan, Cyril Zhang, and Yi Zhang

ICML 2020

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Naman Agarwal, Xinyi Chen, Elad Hazan, Cyril Zhang, and Yi Zhang

ICLR 2020

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(#) Rohith Kuditipudi, Xiang Wang, Holden Lee, Yi Zhang , Zhiyuan Li, Wei Hu, Sanjeev Arora, and Rong Ge

NeurIPS 2019

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Naman Agarwal, Brian Bullins, Xinyi Chen, Elad Hazan, Karan Singh, Cyril Zhang and Yi Zhang

ICML 2019

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Elad Hazan, Holden Lee, Karan Singh, Cyril Zhang, and Yi Zhang

NeurIPS 2018

Oral Presentation

Sanjeev Arora, Rong Ge, Behnam Neyshabur, and Yi Zhang

ICML 2018

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Sanjeev Arora, Elad Hazan, Holden Lee, Karan Singh, Cyril Zhang, and Yi Zhang

ICLR 2018 Workshop

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Brian Bullins, Cyril Zhang, Yi Zhang

ICLR 2018

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Sanjeev Arora, Andrej Risteski, and Yi Zhang

ICLR 2018

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Sanjeev Arora, Rong Ge, Yingyu Liang, Tengyu Ma, and Yi Zhang

ICML 2017

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(#) Anna Gilbert, Yi Zhang, Kibok Lee, Yuting Zhang, and Honglak Lee

IJCAI 2017

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(#) Tai Cheng, Xiao Tong, Yi Zhang, Xiaogang Wang, and Weinan E

ICLR 2016

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(#) Scott Reed, Yi Zhang, Yuting Zhang, Honglak Lee

NIPS 2015

Oral Presentation

Misc.

Blog posts featuring my works

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Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant for COS 324 Intro to Machine Learning, Fall 2018.

  • Teaching Assistant for COS 445 Economics and Computation, Spring 2019

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©2023 by Yi Zhang

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