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

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.

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