Teaching
Teaching Assistant, MATH-SHU 234 Mathematical Statistics
Ziliang (Samuel) Zhong is currently a Ph.D. student in Data Science advised by Prof. Shuyang Ling. Prior to that, he received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from New York University Shanghai with the senior thesis on community detection in directed graphs (Exact recovery in stochastic coblock models ) advised by Prof. Shuyang Ling. He is broadly interested in mathematics of data science, algorithms and machine learning on graphs.
Publications
- Z. Zhong, S. Ling, “Uncertainty Quantification of Spectral Estimator and MLE for Orthogonal Group Synchronization”. In submission.
- Z. Zhong, X. Pan, Q. Lei, “Bridging Domains with Approximately Shared Features”. To appear at AISTATS 2025.
- Z. Zhong, S. Ling, “Improved theoretical guarantee for rank aggregation via spectral method”. Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, 2024.
Research Interests
- Mathematics of Data Science: Optimization, Statistics, Spectral methods
- Machine Learning: Representation Learning, Clustering, Data Visualization
- Graphs and Networks: Community Detection, Graph Matching, Graph Neural Networks