Gavin (Jialun) Zhang

  • Email: jialun2@illinois.edu
  • Office: ECE Building, 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
  • Phone: (909) 575-7644
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About Me

Hello! My name is Gavin (Jialun) Zhang. I am a third-year PhD student in the ECE department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisor is Richard Y. Zhang. I am also a member of the coordinated science laboratory at UIUC.

I’m mainly interested using optimization and machine learning to solve large-scale, data-driven problems with provable guarantees. Previously I also have worked in other areas of applied and computational mathematics, such as numerical PDEs and mathematical biology.

I received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, where I worked with professors Chiu-Yen Kao and Andrew Bernoff on numerical PDEs and mathematical biology. I also received a master’s degree in computational mathematics from Stanford, where I worked with Mert Pilanci.

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