Zeyuan Allen-Zhu's Home Page

Education & Work

Zeyuan with Bachelor Degree of Science
in Mathematics and Physics
@ Peking University, 2010

Microsoft Research, Redmond (06/2017 - present)
- Researcher in ML/Theory
Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study (09/2015 - 05/2017)
- Postdoc Researcher (hosted by Elad Hazan and Avi Wigderson)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (09/2010 - 07/2015)
- Doctor of Science in CS (advised by Jon Kelner and Silvio Micali)
- Master of Science in CS (advised by Silvio Micali)
Tsinghua University (09/2006 – 07/2010)
- Bachelor of Science in Math and Physics (summa cum laude)
Nanjing Foreign Language School (09/2000 – 06/2006)
- High School diplomat with English major

Some Awards

A family photo of my gold and silver medals

In algorithm competitions, I was fortunate to win a few awards in my past life, including two IOI gold medals, the USACO world champion, the ACM/ICPC world-final gold medal, a Google Codejam world runner-up, and an USA MCM Top Prize.

In research, I used to be supported by a Microsoft Young Fellow Award, a Simons Student Award and a Microsoft Azure Research Award.

For a full list, click here.

Personal Information

Research Areas

Optimization, Machine Learning, Algorithms

Research Interests

I wish to design large-scale optimization and machine learning tools to enrich the dimension of algorithm design, and apply them to subjects across data mining, theoretical computer science, and statistics.

I am also interested in the mathematical modeling for physical, social, economic, and biological systems.

Conferences & Journals

ICML
NIPS
STOC
FOCS
SODA
ICALP
SoCG
WSDM
ICDM
CIKM
EC
ITCS
WINE
POPL
JMLR
DAM
TCS
Econometrica
PNAS
IEEE Information Theory

Zeyuan ALLEN-ZHU