CV
Curriculum Vitae
Basics
| Name | Wenyuan(Warren) Zhao |
| Label | Ph.D. Student |
| wyzhao@tamu.edu | |
| Phone | 858-361-6905 |
| Url | https://wyzhao23.github.io/ |
| Summary | An aggie at Texas A&M University, working on the general area of machine learning and information theory |
Education
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2023.08 - 2027.06 College Station, US
Ph.D.
Texas A&M University, United States
Information Science and Learning Systems
- Advisor: Prof. Chao Tian
- GPA: 4.0/4.0
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2021.09 - 2023.06 La Jolla, US
M.S.
University of California San Diego, United States
Communication Theory and Systems
- Advisor: Prof. Xinyu Zhang
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2017.09 - 2021.06 Nanjing, CN
Awards
- 2025
NeurIPS Scholar Award
NeurIPS 2025
- 2025
ISIT Travel Grant Award
IEEE IT Society
- 2025
Departmental Research Poster Event Winner
Texas A&M University
- 2020
Sun Qingyun Scholarship
Southeast University
- 2019
First Place in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)
China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Top 0.7%, best from Southeast University
- 2019
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Scholarship
Southeast University
Publications
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2025 Partial Information Decomposition via Normalizing Flows in Latent Gaussian Distributions
NeurIPS 2025
Acceptance rate: 24.5%.
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2025 Weakly Private Information Retrieval from Heterogeneously Trusted Servers
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume 71, Issue 9, 7292-7309.
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2025 From Deep Additive Kernel Learning to Last-layer Bayesian Neural Networks via Induced Prior Approximation
AISTATS 2025
Acceptance rate: 31.3%.
Projects
- 2024 - 2025
Partial Information Decomposition
Information-theoretic multimodal learning
- Gaussian Partial Information Decomposition
- PID via Normalizing Flows
- 2023 - 2025
Bayesian Deep Learning
Uncertainty quantification in Bayesian models
- Bayesian LoRA
- Deep Additive Kernel Learning
- Deep Gaussian Processes
- 2023 - 2025
Coding for Privacy
Optimizing code schemes for private information retrieval (PIR) systems
- Weakly Private Information Retrieval
- Leaky Private Information Retrieval
- 2022 - 2023
Dynamic mmWave Networking
Highly dynamic network control decisions in 5G IAB, from heterogeneous network slices to run-time decision-making
- Self-supervised Adaptive Configuration
- Reinforcement Learning Mesh Controller
Interests
| Machine Learning | |
| Uncertainty Quantification | |
| Deep Generative Models | |
| Multimodal Learning |
| Information Theory | |
| Private Information Retrieval | |
| Partial Information Decomposition | |
| Wireless Communications |
Languages
| Chinese | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |