Yizi Zhang
Location
New York City, NY
Zibo, People's Republic of China
Education
C
Columbia University in the City of New York
September 2021 - May 2025
degree
Ph.D
major
Statistics
D
Duke University
Work Experience
Z
Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University
Research Assistant
June 2023 - present
company
Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University
title
Research Assistant
overview
- Developed multi-task low-rank models and constrained state-space models in PyTorch to share information across
- Decoded animal behaviors from large-scale electrophysiological recordings. Improved decoding accuracy by 10% to 30
- Extracted low-dimensional behaviorally relevant latent variables from high-dimensional neural signals, identifying
K
Kwon Research Group at Columbia University
Research Assistant
May 2023 - present
Z
Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University
Research Assistant
March 2022 - May 2023
D
Department of Statistical Science at Duke University
Research Assistant
April 2021 - December 2022
H
Hernia Society Annual Meeting
Austin, TX, US
January 2021 - December 2021
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Skills
Ability to MultitaskAlgorithmsAmazon Web ServicesAnacondaAnomaly DetectionBaseliningCloud ComputingComputer ProgrammingData AnalysisData CleansingData ProcessingDecodingDeep LearningDockerElectrophysiologyEncodingsEvent ManagementForecasting SkillsGitImagingInformation TheoryKnowledge of StatisticsMachine LearningMATLABMedical ImagingMessage Passing InterfaceMetricsNeuroimagingNeuronsNeuroscienceObject DetectionPredictive Data AnalysisPresentationsProteinPython (Programming Language)PytorchRisk AnalysisSQL DatabasesSurgical ProceduresTeam WorkingTensorflowTime Series