I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Before joining Michigan, I was a Morrey visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, hosted by Prof. Lin Lin. I received my Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from University of Wisconsin-Madison under the direction of Qin Li.

Research interest:

I work in applied and computational mathematics, with a particular focus on numerical analysis in areas such as quantum computing, machine learning, and data science. A central theme of my research is developing a deep mathematical understanding of existing algorithms and designing new, principled ones. My interests span a broad range of topics in quantum computing and machine learning, such as quantum eigenvalue estimation, signal processing, quantum and classical optimization and sampling, and mean-field analysis.

Contact:

Email: zyding at umich dot edu