Xinyi (Tracey) Zhong
Department of Statistics and Data Science
24 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
I am interested in high dimensional statistics and computational economics.
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University. I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Zhou Fan. Prior to that, I received my bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, where I studied Mathematics and Linguistics.
Research
Tianhao Wang, Xinyi Zhong, and Zhou Fan. Universality of Approximate Message Passing algorithms and tensor networks
Xinyi Zhong, Tianhao Wang, and Zhou Fan. Approximate Message Passing for orthogonally invariant ensembles: Multivariate non-linearities and spectral initialization. (code)
Xinyi Zhong, Chang Su, and Zhou Fan. Empirical Bayes PCA in high dimensions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 2022. (software) (code)
Honors and Awards
Two Sigma Ph.D. Fellowship, 2022
D.E. Shaw & Co. Zenith Fellowship, 2021
Distinguished Graduates, Tsinghua University, 2018
Qinghe Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2017
Professional Service
Journal reviewer: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
Teaching
| Term | Course | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2022 | S&DS 317/517 Applied Machine Learning and Causal Inference | Teaching Fellow |
| Fall 2021 | S&DS 410/610 Statistical Inference | Teaching Fellow |
| Spring 2021, 2020 | S&DS 431/631 Optimization and Computation | Teaching Fellow |
| Fall 2019 | S&DS 355/555 Introductory Machine Learning | Teaching Fellow |
| Spring 2019 | S&DS 242/542 Theory of Statistics | Teaching Fellow |