CV
Basics
| Name | Zikun Zhang |
| zz3367@columbia.edu | |
| Url | https://zikunezhang.github.io |
Education
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2025.08 - Present New York, US
PhD
Columbia University
Operations Research
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2021.09 - 2025.06 Shanghai, CN
BS
Fudan University
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Awards
- 2025.05
Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai
- 2024.11
Outstanding Student Award, Fudan University
Publications
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2026.06 MNL-Bandit with Fairness Constraints
INFORMS Journal on Computing
A variant of online assortment optimization under MNL-Bandit feedback
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2025.01 Convergence of Score-Based Discrete Diffusion Models: A Discrete-Time Analysis
The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
A theoretical analysis of discrete diffusion models
Interests
| Machine Learning | |||||
| Diffusion Models | |||||
| Reinforcement Learning | |||||
| Online Learning | |||||
| Sampling Methods | |||||
Hobbies
| Table Tennis | |
| Tennis | |
| Movies | |
| Music (Keyboard, Piano) | |
| Travel |