Zilong Zhang

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

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

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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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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