I am a final year PhD student at Pennsylvania State University, department of computer science and engineering, where I am advised by Prof. Mehrdad Mahdavi. Before I joined Penn state, I obtained my Bachelor degree from Soochow University, Suzhou, China at 2018. I also closely work with Sony AI, Cruise and Google Deepmind.

My research interests include multiple source learning (especially federated learning), optimization (especially minimax optimization), modern machine learning theory and other mathematical aspects of machine learning. I also have passion on applying machine learning to solve real-world problem.

Please find my CV and Google Scholar here

I will join Columbia University, Department of Statistics as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Fall 2024. I will be on academic job market in 2024-2025. Please feel free to reach out:)

Email: yzd82 at psu dot edu