Hongyang Zhang
(he/him/his)
Assistant Professor
Research interests
- Machine learning
- Design and analysis of algorithms
- Learning theory
- Data, data augmentation, and networks
- Language modeling
Education
- Postdoctorate in Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania
- PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University
- BEng in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University — China
Biography
Hongyang (Ryan) Zhang is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Zhang's research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, design and analysis of algorithms, learning theory, data, networks, and language modeling. He spent a year as a postdoc in the statistics and data science department at the University of Pennsylvania; served as an area chair and program committee member for ICML, AISTATS, COLT, ALT, and AAAI; and served as an action editor for the Journal of Data-centric Machine Learning Research.
Labs and groups
Recent publications
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On the Generalization Effects of Linear Transformations in Data Augmentation
Citation: Wu, S., Zhang, H.R., Valiant, G. and Ré, C., 2020. On the Generalization Effects of Linear Transformations in Data Augmentation. ICML. -
Understanding and Improving Information Transfer in Multi-Task Learning
Citation: Wu, S., Zhang, H.R. and Ré, C., 2020. Understanding and Improving Information Transfer in Multi-Task Learning. ICLR. -
Learning Over-Parametrized Two-Layer ReLU Neural Networks beyond NTK
Citation: Li, Y., Ma, T. and Zhang, H.R., 2020, July. Learning Over-parametrized Two-layer Neural Networks beyond NTK. In Conference on Learning Theory.
