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Hongyang (Ryan) Zhang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University

Address:
177 Huntington Ave, Mailstop 177-2211
Boston, MA 02115
Email: ho.zhang@northeastern.edu
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Hi, I am an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, Boston, working at the intersection of machine learning, learning theory, design and analysis of algorithms, social and information networks. Some of the topics I work on are:

I received a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford, where I worked within the theoretical computer science and the statistical machine learning groups. I was a postdoc at UPenn for a brief stint. More information about me can be found in my cv.

I enjoy working on technically challenging problems, and strive for broader impacts by creating new knowledge and promoting education. I support accessible and reproducible research. See our experiment codes on GitHub. Here is a list of my recent activities.

Research

See below for some of my representative papers (see also Google Scholar)

Teaching

Here is a a deck of slides that presentes our recent and ongoing work where we develop neural networks to simultaneously solve many tasks.

Advising

Current Ph.D. students and postdocs

Current MS and undergraduate students

Prospective students: I am actively looking for students to join us. If you have ideas, I would love to chat. We host visiting students and scholars, and we are open to working with students who are already on campus. You may take a look at my recent papers and projects first before reaching out to me. I am particularly interested in students who are self-motivated, and have a strong background in mathematics and/or programming.

You can email me at hongyang90@gmail.com.

Professional Services

Program committee: COLT (2024), ICML (2019-2023; meta-reviewer, 2024), AISTATS (2021-2022; meta-reviewer, 2023/24), ALT (meta-reviewer, 2024), ICLR (2021-2024), NeurIPS (2019-2023), ICLR (2021-2024), KDD 2023, WWW 2022, WSDM (2022-2024).

Conference organization: Informs 2023-2024 (session chair).

Education/Experience

I grew up in China. My Chinese name is written as 张泓洋.