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Zeyu Yang

PhD Student
Rice University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: zy45 [at] rice (dot) edu

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Zeyu Yang is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University under the supervision of Dr. Anshumali Shrivastava. His main area of research interest is large scale machine learning and generative modeling.

Publications

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Balanced Mixed-Type Tabular Data Synthesis with Diffusion Models
Zeyu Yang, Han Yu, Peikun Guo, Khadija Zanna, Xiaoxue Yang, Akane Sano
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025
[OpenReview]

Software

PlotNet: A Python Toolbox for Interactive Visualization of Neural Networks
Zeyu Yang and Joe Warren
[GitHub]

Teaching

Rice University
Graduate Teaching Assistant:
  1. Course: Data Visualization (COMP 665, Graduate Level)
    Semester: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022
    Instructor: Dr. Joe Warren
  2. Course: Introduction to Data Science (DSCI 101, Undergraduate Level)
    Semester: Fall 2025
    Instructor: Dr. Lorenzo Luzi

Selected Honors

Misc.

I have a love for basketball, both playing it and watching games. I also find great pleasure in playing Chinese chess, and it's worth mentioning that I won the championship of the national junior Chinese chess tournament in 2009. My favorite author is Plato, renowned for crafting influential works such as Republic, Apology, and Symposium.