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 working as a Machine Learning Engineer intern at Meta in Menlo Park in the summer of 2022.
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
Xinyi Zhong, Chang Su, and Zhou Fan. Empirical Bayes PCA in high dimensions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 2022. (software) (code)
Xinyi Zhong, Tianhao Wang, and Zhou Fan. Approximate Message Passing for orthogonally invariant ensembles: Multivariate non-linearities and spectral initialization. (code)
Tianhao Wang, Xinyi Zhong, and Zhou Fan. Universality of Approximate Message Passing algorithms and tensor networks
Professional Service
Journal reviewer: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
Honors and Awards
Qinghe Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2017
Distinguished Graduates, Tsinghua University, 2018
D.E. Shaw & Co. Zenith Fellowship, 2021
Two Sigma Ph.D. Fellowship, 2022