个人简介

2015年本科毕业于中国科学技术大学少年班学院，获学士学位。2017年硕士毕业于加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学统计系。2022年博士毕业于加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学统计系，导师为陈家骅教授。2022年9月起加入中国人民大学统计与大数据研究院并担任助理教授。目前的研究方向包括：混合模型、分布式/联邦学习等。

详见个人主页：https://sarahqiong.github.io/

Publications and Preprints:

· Qiong Zhang, Archer Gong Zhang, Jiahua Chen. Gaussian Mixture Reduction with Composite Transportation Divergence. Under review.

· Qiong Zhang, Jiahua Chen. Distributed Learning of Finite Gaussian Mixtures. Journal of Machine Learning Research 23, no. 99 (2022): 1-40.

· Qiong Zhang, Jiahua Chen. Minimum Wasserstein Distance Estimator under Finite Location-scale Mixtures Springer. In Press. Advances and Innovations in Statistics and Data Science.

· Qiong Zhang, Jiahua Chen. Robustness of Gaussian Mixture Reduction for Split-and-Conquer Learning of Finite Gaussian Mixtures. 3rd Internatioanl Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA), 2021.

· Hanwen Liang*, Qiong Zhang*, Dai Peng, Juwei Lu. Boosting the Generalization Capability in Cross-domain Few-shot Learning via Noise-enhanced Supervised Autoencoder. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 9424-9434. 2021.

· Xin Ding*, Qiong Zhang*, William J. Welch. Classification Beats Regression: Counting of Cells from Greyscale Microscopic Images Based on Annotation-free Training Samples. In CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 662-673. Springer, Cham, 2021.

· Zhanshou Chen,  Jiahua Chen, and Qiong Zhang. Small Area Quantile Estimation via Spline Regression and Empirical Likelihood. Survey Methodology 45-1 45, no. 1 (2019): 81-99.

· Philippe  Phan, Brandon Budhram, Qiong Zhang, Carly S. Rivers, Vanessa K. Noonan, Tova Plashkes, Eugene K. Wai et al. Highlighting Discrepancies in Walking Prediction Accuracy for Patients with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: An Evaluation of Validated Prediction Models using a Canadian Multicenter Spinal Cord Injury Registry. The Spine Journal 19, no. 4 (2019): 703-710.

· Bo Chang*, Qiong Zhang*, Shenyi Pan, Lili Meng. Generating Handwritten Chinese Characters using CycleGAN. In 2018 IEEE winter conference on applications of computer vision (WACV), pp. 199-207. IEEE, 2018.

(* co-first author with alphabetical order)