Areas of Focus
- Bayesian Inference
- Statistical Learning
- Computational Biology
Work Experience
- 2019-08 to present, Peking University, Assistant Professor
- 2017-01 to 2019-07, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2017 PhD in Computational Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
- 2011 Master's in Computational Mathematics, Peking University
- 2008 Bachelor's in Mathematics, Peking University
Publications
- Variational Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference, C. Zhang and F. A. Matsen IV, 2019
- Generalizing Tree Probability Estimation via Bayesian Networks, C. Zhang and F. A. Matsen IV, 2018
- Variational Hamiltonian Monte Carlo via Score Matching, C. Zhang, B. Shahbaba and H. K. Zhao, 2018
- Probabilistic Path Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, V. Dinh, A. Bilge, C. Zhang, and F. A. Matsen IV, 2017
- Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Acceleration Using Surrogate Functions with Random Bases, C. Zhang, B. Shahbaba and H. K. Zhao, 2017
