Dr Zhang was a postdoc at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Prior to that, he obtained his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research lies in mathematics of data science at large, with particular focus on phase transition phenomena and information-computation trade-offs in modern high-dimensional estimation problems, leveraging a mix of tools such as Approximate Message Passing, Random Matrix Theory, theory of Gaussian processes and Statistical Physics.

A warm welcome to Yihan.