CV

Curriculum Vitae

Basics

Name Wenyuan (Warren) Zhao
Label Ph.D. Student
Email wyzhao@tamu.edu
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

  • 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
  • 2021.09 - 2023.06

    La Jolla, US

    M.S.
    University of California San Diego, United States
    Communication Theory and Systems
    • Advisor: Prof. Xinyu Zhang
  • 2017.09 - 2021.06

    Nanjing, CN

    B.E.
    Southeast University, China
    Information Engineering
    • Advisor: Prof. Cheng Zhang

Awards

Projects

  • 2023 - 2026
    Uncertainty Quantification
    Predictive uncertainty in large-scale deep models and AI systems
    • DAK: From Scalable DKL to BNN
    • GPan-LoRA: Bayesian LoRA for LLMs
    • SIKA-GP: Accelerated GP for Bayesian Deep Learning
  • 2025 - 2026
    Computer Vision in 3D
    3D geometric foundation models and their applications
    • Trust3R: Uncertainty-aware 3D reconstruction
    • Multi-sensor 3D reconstruction
  • 2024 - 2025
    Partial Information Decomposition
    Information-theoretic multimodal learning
    • Gaussian PID
    • PID via Normalizing Flows
  • 2023 - 2025
    Coding for Privacy
    Optimizing code schemes for private information retrieval (PIR) systems
    • Leaky/weakly PIR
    • Differential Privacy

Interests

Machine Learning
Uncertainty Quantification
Multimodal Learning
Generative Foundation Models
Information Theory
Partial Information Decomposition
Private Information Retrieval
Wireless Communications

Languages

Chinese
Fluent
English
Fluent