Tenure Materials for Letter Writers

This page provides materials intended for the writers of tenure recommendation letters on my behalf: my CV, statements, and several selected publications.

• Curriculum Vitae (CV)

• Research Statement (See also description in html)

• Teaching Statement

• Service Statement

Selected Publications

These selected publications represent the breadth of my research, including recent work with my PhD students at Northeastern. See my Publications page, Google Scholar, and my CV for a complete listing.

• Efficient Estimation of Kernel Surrogate Models for Task Attribution
  Z. Zhang, M. Duan, and H. R. Zhang
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
  openreview

• One-Sided Matrix Completion from Ultra-Sparse Samples
  H. R. Zhang, Z. Zhang, H. L. Nguyen, and G. Lan
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026. Featured Certification
  openreview

• Precise High-Dimensional Asymptotics for Quantifying Heterogeneous Transfers
  F. Yang*, H. R. Zhang*, S. Wu, C. Ré, and W. Su
  Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2025

• Scalable Multitask Learning Using Gradient-based Estimation of Task Affinity
  D. Li, A. Sharma, and H. R. Zhang
  ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2024

• Generalization in Graph Neural Networks: Improved PAC-Bayesian Bounds on Graph Diffusion
  H. Ju, D. Li, A. Sharma, and H. R. Zhang
  Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2023

• Algorithmic Regularization in Over-parameterized Matrix Sensing and Neural Networks with Quadratic Activations
  Y. Li*, T. Ma*, and H. Zhang*
  Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2018. Best Paper Award