Name: Zhang Liangyu
Title: Assistant Professor
Research direction: Reinforcement Learning Theory, Distributionally Robust Optimization
Courses Taught: "Statistics", "Empirical Processes"
E - mail：zhangliangyu@sufe.edu.cn
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Research Project
Serial Number | Project Name | Project Number | Project Source | Start and End Time | Project Funding |
1 | Statistical Theory and Inference Methods for Online Value Distribution Strategy Evaluation | 12501707 | National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project (Category C) | 2026-2029 Years | 300,000 yuan |
Education Background
2015-2019 Bachelor in Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University
2019-2024 Peking University Institute for Interdisciplinary Research Data Science PhD
Work Experience
2024 to present Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Statistics and Management Assistant Professor
Estimation and Inference in Distributional Reinforcement Learning Liangyu Zhang, Yang Peng, Jiadong Liang, Wenhao Yang, and Zhihua Zhang The Annals of Statistics, 2025+.
Statistical Efficiency of Distributional Temporal Difference Learning Yang Peng, Liangyu Zhang, and Zhihua Zhang Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
Semi-Infinitely Constrained Markov Decision Processes and Provably Efficient Reinforcement Learning Liangyu Zhang, Yang Peng, Wenhao Yang, and Zhihua Zhang IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024.
Semi-Infinitely Constrained Markov Decision Processes Liangyu Zhang, Yang Peng, Wenhao Yang, and Zhihua Zhang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.
Toward Theoretical Understandings of Robust Markov Decision Processes: Sample Complexity and Asymptotics
Wenhao Yang, Liangyu Zhang, and Zhihua Zhang The Annals of Statistics, 2022.
Rewards, Honors
Peking University PhD Student President Scholarship 2024
Social Work
Formerly served as a reviewer for ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIAM Journal on Optimization, and Journal of Machine Learning Research.
