Zilong Zhang

Ph.D. Student
Georgia State University
zzhang52[at]gsu[dot]edu

About Me

I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Statistics and Machine Learning in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Georgia State University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Chi-Kuang Yeh.

Education Experience

Georgia State University
Ph.D. Student in Machine Learning & Data Science, Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Atlanta GA, Aug 2025 – Present
Michigan State University
M.S. in Statistics, Department of Statistics and Probability
East Lansing MI, Aug 2023 – May 2025
University of International Business and Economics
B.S. in Financial Mathematics, College of Statistics
Beijing China, Sep 2019 – Jul 2023

Research Interests

Statistical Machine Learning: graph neural networks, transfer learning, and statistical theory of deep learning
Functional Data Analysis (FDA): time series, functional principal component analysis, bandwidth selection
Bioinformatics / Computational Biology: single-cell multi-omics integration, RNA–protein prediction, and molecular data analysis

Publications

KDD'23

R-Mixup: Riemannian Mixup for Biological Networks

Xuan Kan, Zimu Li, Hejie Cui, Yue Yu, Ran Xu, Shaojun Yu, Zilong Zhang, Ying Guo, Carl Yang

Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2023

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NeurIPS'22

Brain Network Transformer

Xuan Kan, Wei Dai, Hejie Cui, Zilong Zhang, Ying Guo, Carl Yang

Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022

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