About meWelcome to my personal website. I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Missouri.Before joining Mizzou, I was an EnCORE Postdoc Fellow at the Halιcιoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California San Diego, working with Gal Mishne and Yusu Wang. I obtained my PhD in Mathematics from the Ohio State University under the supervision of Facundo Mémoli. I earned my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at Peking University in 2016. Here is my current CV. |
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Research Interests
My primary research interests lie in the development of novel mathematical tools and frameworks for understanding and analyzing complex data, with a focus on geometric and topological data analysis. My work spans across multiple domains, including probability theory, geometry, graph theory, and machine learning.
Check out my recent papers!
- Random Walks, Conductance, and Resistance for the Connection Graph Laplacian (With Alexander Cloninger, Gal Mishne, Andreas Oslandsbotn, Sawyer Jack Robertson, Yusu Wang.) To appear in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX).
- Comparing Graph Transformers via Positional Encodings (With Mitchell Black, Gal Mishne, Amir Nayyeri, Yusu Wang.) To appear in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024).
- Distances for Markov Chains, and Their Differentiation (With Tristan Brugère, Yusu Wang.) International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2024).
Contacts
Email: zwan[at]missouri.edu.
Address: Office 308, Mathematical Sciences Bldg, 810 Rollins St, Columbia, MO 65201