Teaching

• CS7140, Advanced Machine Learning, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025, Spring 2026.

• DS5220, Supervised Machine Learning and Learning Theory, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2024.

• CS4100, Principles of Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2025.

• CS6140, Machine Learning, Fall 2023.

• DS4400, Machine Learning and Data Mining I, Spring 2023.

• CS7180, Special Topics in AI (Algorithmic and Statistical Aspects of Deep Learning), Fall 2020. Note: The content of this course has evolved and is now subsumed by CS7140.

Awards

• Featured Certification, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2026, 2023)

• New Faculty Highlight, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2023

• Best Paper Award, Conference on Learning Theory, 2018

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 machine learning, including statistics, learning theory, optimization, and operations research. If you are interested in speaking at Northeastern, please let me know!

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 June 2012: B.Eng., Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Personal: My Chinese name is written as 张泓洋.