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

I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2021 from Princeton University where I was privileged to be advised by Sanjeev Arora. For my last year at Princeton, 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.

My research concentrates on Theoretical Machine Learning. I am broadly interested in theory and empirics for machine learning, focusing on understanding the intrinsic mechanism of deep learning from a theoretical perspective.

I am a proud dad of a 1-year-old ultra-cute  Mame Shiba Inu named Lambo.
He goes by Bobo or 啵啵, at his insistence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brian Bullins, Cyril Zhang, Yi Zhang

Sanjeev Arora, Andrej Risteski, and Yi Zhang

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

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