I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology working with Prof. Wenjing Liao. Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics under the supervision of Prof. Ming-Jun Lai at University of Georgia. I also obtained a M.S. in Computer Science with Prof. Sheng Li (University of Virginia).
My research interests are deep learning theory for transformer neural networks, graph-based learning and clustering, manifold learning, mathematics of data science.
Click here for my CV and Google Scholar page. My Erdös number is 2.
Recipient of the SIAM Postdoctoral Support Program, 12/2025
Presented at the CBMS Conference: Research at the Interface of Applied Mathematics and Machine Learning, University of Houston, 12/2025
Presented at the Conference of Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Data Science (TAG-DS), UC San Diego, 12/2025
Co-organized and presented at a mini-symposium at the SIAM Central States Section Meeting, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 10/2025
Participated at the Research Collaboration Workshop in Science of Data and Mathematics (WiSDM) Conference, UNC Chapel Hill, 08/2025
Presented at the IPAM Workshop on Sampling, Inference, and Data-Driven Physical Modeling in Scientific Machine Learning, UCLA, 07/2025
Presented at the MINDS Seminar, UC San Diego, 05/2025
Presented at the Shanks Conference, Vanderbilt University, 05/2025
Presented at the NSF Computational Mathematics Meeting, University of Utah, 05/2025
Presented at the Southeast Applied and Computational Math Student Workshop, Auburn University, 04/2025
Presented at the SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Meeting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 03/2025
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, 08/2024 - present
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Georgia, 08/2018 - 05/2024
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Georgia, 08/2021 - 12/2022
M.S. in Statistics, University of Georgia, 08/2019 - 12/2021
M.Phil. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 08/2014 - 05/2017
B.S. in Mathematics, University of Liverpool, 09/2012 - 05/2014
Address: School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 686 Cherry Street, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Email: zshen49@gatech.edu