Zeyuan Allen-Zhu's Home Page

Education & Work

Zeyuan being awarded the World Champion's Prize
by Rob Kostald, the head coach of USACO
@ Merida, Mexico, 2006

Microsoft Research, Redmond (06/2017 - present)
- Researcher in ML/Theory Group
Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton (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

Selected Awards

A family photo of my gold and silver medals

In algorithm competitions, Zeyuan was a

Two-Time IOI Gold Medalist,
USACO World Champion,
ACM/ICPC World-Final Gold Medalist,
Google Codejam World Runner-Up, and
USA MCM Top Prize Winner.

In research, Zeyuan was the recipient of 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 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
SODA
ICALP
SoCG
WSDM
ICDM
CIKM
EC
ITCS
WINE
POPL
DAM
TCS
IEEE Information Theory
Econometrica
PNAS

Zeyuan Allen-Zhu