Mingyuan Zhou

Research Group

Current UT Ph.D. students:
         Xizewen Han (SDS)
         Yilin He (IROM)
         Rahi Kalantari (ECE)
         Korawat Tanwisuth (SDS, expected to graduate in May 2023)
         Zhendong Wang (SDS)
         Shentao Yang (IROM)
         Haoran Zhang (CS, co-supervised with Wesley Tansey at MSKCC)
         Shujian Zhang (SDS)
         Huangjie Zheng (SDS)

Non-UT Ph.D. students that are collaborating with me:
Zhibin Duan (Xidian)
Dongsheng Wang (Xidian)

Former Ph.D. students supervised by me
         Alek Dimitriev (Ph.D. in Statistics, Defended in April 2022, Thesis title: "Gradient Estimation for Discrete Variables via Dependent Monte Carlo Samples," Software Engineer at Google)
         Xinjie Fan (Ph.D. in Statistics and Data Sciences, Defended in April 2021, Thesis title: "Deep Neural Networks with Contextual Probabilistic Units," Software Engineer at Nuro)
         Yuguang Yue (Ph.D. in Statistics and Data Sciences, Defended in April 2021, Thesis title: "Boosting Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Deep Probabilistic Models," Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter --> Applied Scientist at Amazon)
         Quan Zhang (Ph.D. in Statistics, Defended in July 2020, Thesis title: "Bayesian Modeling with Tractable Inference and Applications to Online Peer-to-Peer Lending," Assistant Professor at Michigan State University)
         Mingzhang Yin (Ph.D. in Statistics and Data Sciences, Defended in May 2020, Thesis title: "Variational Methods with Dependence Structure," Postdoc at Columbia University Data Science Institute --> Assistant Professor at the University of Florida)
         Maurice Diesendruck (Ph.D. in Statistics and Data Sciences, Defended in May 2019, co-supervised with Dr. Sinead Williamson, Data Scientist at Ojo Labs --> Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research)
         Carlos T.P. Zanini (PhD in Statistics and Data Sciences, Defended in May 2019, co-supervised with Dr. Peter Müller, Professor Adjunto at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Former students closely worked with me
         Ayan Acharya (Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn)
         Reza Armandpur (Apple)
         Wenchao Chen (Lecture at Xidian University)
         Yulai Cong (Faculty at Sun Yat-sen University)
         Siamak Zamani Dadaneh (Data Scientist at Apple)
         Dandan Guo (Professor at Jilin University)
         Ehsan Hajiramezanali (Research Scientist at Genentech)
         Long Tian (Lecture at Xidian University)
         Aaron Schein (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago)
         Chaojie Wang (Postdoc at Nanyang Technological University)
         Hao Zhang (Faculty at Xidian University)
         He Zhao (Research Scientist at Data61, CSIRO)