Ziping Zhao | Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) Lab
Current Students
Chenyu Gao
Doctoral Student (2020-now)
Research interests: MM/EM algorithms, location-scale models, volatility models, quantization
Email: gaochy@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Doctoral Student (2020-now)
Research interests: MM/EM algorithms, location-scale models, volatility models, quantization
Email: gaochy@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Mengting Chen
Doctoral Student (2021-now)
Research interests: Optimization, bilinear inverse problems
Email: chenmt@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Doctoral Student (2021-now)
Research interests: Optimization, bilinear inverse problems
Email: chenmt@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Wenfu Xia
Doctoral Student (2021-now)
Research interests: Optimization, scatter and covariance matrix estimation
Email: xiawf@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Doctoral Student (2021-now)
Research interests: Optimization, scatter and covariance matrix estimation
Email: xiawf@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Fengpei Li
Doctoral Student (2022-now)
Research interests: MM/EM algorithms, graphical models
Email: fengpeili@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Doctoral Student (2022-now)
Research interests: MM/EM algorithms, graphical models
Email: fengpeili@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Wenbin Wang
Master Student (2023-now)
Research interests: Optimization, matrix sensing
Email: wangwb2023@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Master Student (2023-now)
Research interests: Optimization, matrix sensing
Email: wangwb2023@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Jun Zhang
Master Student (2023-now)
Research interests: Geometric (graph) machine learning and signal processing
Email: junzhang@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Master Student (2023-now)
Research interests: Geometric (graph) machine learning and signal processing
Email: junzhang@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Wenfu Zhong
Master Student (2023-now)
Research interests: Optimization, sparse principal component analysis
Email: wenfuzhong@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Master Student (2023-now)
Research interests: Optimization, sparse principal component analysis
Email: wenfuzhong@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Yixin Yan
Master Student (2024-now)
(AI+Fin program, co-supervised with Prof. Qiao Bill Yang)
Research interests: Optimization, covariance estimation and forecasting
Email: yixinyan@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Master Student (2024-now)
(AI+Fin program, co-supervised with Prof. Qiao Bill Yang)
Research interests: Optimization, covariance estimation and forecasting
Email: yixinyan@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Zhexian Yang
Master Student (2024-now)
Research interests: Optimization, information and estimation theory
Email: zhexianyang@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Master Student (2024-now)
Research interests: Optimization, information and estimation theory
Email: zhexianyang@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Xiangyi He
Master Student (2025-now)
(AI+Fin program, co-supervised with Prof. Qiao Bill Yang)
Research interests: Optimization, diffusion models, Bayesian learning
Email: v-hexy@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Master Student (2025-now)
(AI+Fin program, co-supervised with Prof. Qiao Bill Yang)
Research interests: Optimization, diffusion models, Bayesian learning
Email: v-hexy@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Hengyu Ye
Master Student (2025-now)
Research interests: Optimization, LLM alignment, reinforcement learning
Email: yehy@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Master Student (2025-now)
Research interests: Optimization, LLM alignment, reinforcement learning
Email: yehy@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Wenshuo Zhang
Master Student (2025-now)
Research interests: Optimization, tensor analytics
Email: zhangwsh@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
Master Student (2025-now)
Research interests: Optimization, tensor analytics
Email: zhangwsh@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building
In addition, our group is hosting several wonderful research interns who are not listed.
Alumni
Hongyuan Yang
Master Student (2022-2025)
Dissertation: "Landscape Analysis for Robust M-Estimation of Location"
Next Stop: Researcher at Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
Master Student (2022-2025)
Dissertation: "Landscape Analysis for Robust M-Estimation of Location"
Next Stop: Researcher at Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
Shanshan Zou
Master Student (2022-2025)
Dissertation: "High-dimensional Structured Covariance Matrix Estimation"
Next Stop: Researcher at Hello Inc.
Master Student (2022-2025)
Dissertation: "High-dimensional Structured Covariance Matrix Estimation"
Next Stop: Researcher at Hello Inc.
Cheng Cheng
Master Student (2021-2024)
Dissertation: "High-dimensional Sparse Reduced-Rank Regression"
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Machine Learning at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, China
Master Student (2021-2024)
Dissertation: "High-dimensional Sparse Reduced-Rank Regression"
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Machine Learning at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, China
Quan Wei
Master Student (2021-2024)
Dissertation: "High-dimensional Sparse Covariance Matrix Estimation"
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Optimization at the University of Minnesota, USA
Master Student (2021-2024)
Dissertation: "High-dimensional Sparse Covariance Matrix Estimation"
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Optimization at the University of Minnesota, USA
Zepeng Zhang
Master Student (2020-2023)
Dissertation: "Optimization-Induced Graph Neural Networks"
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Machine Learning at EPFL, Switzerland
Master Student (2020-2023)
Dissertation: "Optimization-Induced Graph Neural Networks"
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Machine Learning at EPFL, Switzerland
Yangzhuoran Fin Yang
Visiting Ph.D. Student (2019-2020)
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Statistics at Monash University, Australia
Visiting Ph.D. Student (2019-2020)
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Statistics at Monash University, Australia
Tao Zhang
Research Assistant (2020)
Next Stop: M.Phil. in Optimization at PolyU, Hong Kong
Research Assistant (2020)
Next Stop: M.Phil. in Optimization at PolyU, Hong Kong
Yao Zhao
Research Assistant (2020)
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Machine Learning at the University of Arizona, USA
Research Assistant (2020)
Next Stop: Ph.D. in Machine Learning at the University of Arizona, USA
In addition, our group has also hosted numerous undergraduate students, many of whom have continued to be enrolled in top graduate programs. See UG students supervised.