Education and experience

• October 2019 to July 2020: Postdoc, Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania

• September 2013 to September 2019: Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University

• July 2012 to July 2013: Research Assistant, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University

• September 2008 to September 2012: B.Eng., Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Recent professional services

Conference Area Chairs: ICML (2024-2026), NeurIPS (2026), AISTATS (2023-2026), ALT (2024), AAAI (2025-2026), KDD (2026) Data Track

Journal Area Editors: Journal of Data-Centric Machine Learning Research (2024-), Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2025-).

Conference Organization: INFORMS session organizer (2023-2026).

Other Program Committees: COLT, NeurIPS, ICLR, ARR, FOCS, JMLR, TMLR, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

For more information about me, please look at my cv.

Research activities

• Within Northeastern, I have been affiliated with the Theoretical Computer Science Group.

• I also coordinate a mailing list broadly around the foundations of modern machine learning, including statistical foundations, learning theory, and optimization. If you are interested in speaking at Northeastern, please send me an email at ho.zhang@northeastern.edu.