Zilong Zhang

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

Georgia State University Atlanta, GA · Aug 2025 – Present

Ph.D. Student in Machine Learning & Data Science, Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Michigan State University East Lansing, MI · Aug 2023 – May 2025

M.S. in Statistics, Department of Statistics and Probability

University of International Business and Economics Beijing, China · Sep 2019 – Jul 2023

B.S. in Financial Mathematics, College of Statistics

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

News

arXiv’26: AURA: Adaptive Uncertainty-aware Refinement for LLM-as-a-Judge Auditing — Under review, 2026.
arXiv’26: Quantifying and Auditing LLM Evaluation via Positive–Unlabeled Learning — Under review, 2026.

Selected Publications

arXiv'26

AURA: Adaptive Uncertainty-aware Refinement for LLM-as-a-Judge Auditing

Zilong Zhang, Yi-Ting Hung, Weiyi He, Junxi Zhang, Lei Ding, Chi-Kuang Yeh

Under review, 2026

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arXiv'26

Quantifying and Auditing LLM Evaluation via Positive--Unlabeled Learning

Zilong Zhang, Yi-Ting Hung, Lei Ding, Chi-Kuang Yeh

Under review, 2026

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