I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at University of Southern California.

During Jan 2022-June 2024, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine and a postdoc in the NSF-Simons Collaboration on the Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning. My mentor is Roman Vershynin. In the fall semester of 2021, I was a Postdoc Fellow at Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute for the program Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems in Berkeley, California. 

I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego  in 2021. My advisor is Ioana Dumitriu.  I obtained Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. My  CV is here.

Email:  yizhezhu@usc.edu                

Office: KAP 464B