Jiayi Li
PhD Student,
Department of Statistics,
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Pronouns: She/her/hers
E-mail: jiayi.li [@] g.ucla [DOT] edu
About me
I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in Statistics at UCLA. I work on statistical machine learning and algebraic statistics with my wonderful advisor Professor Guido Montúfar.
Prior to graduate school, I did a bachelor in Mathematics with 2 years at the University of Hong Kong and 2 years at SUNY Stony Brook. I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Robert Lazarsfeld who introduced me to the miraculous world of classical algebraic geometry.
My first name is pronounced as jyä′ē′.
Here are topics I am now working on and/or hope to explore in the recent future:
Feature collapse in terminal phase of training
Polynomial neural network: optimization and generalization
Implicit bias and benign overfitting
News
Mar, 2024 I am attending the EnCore Workshop on Learning and Optimization locally at IPAM. Ask me what's the best food on campus.
Dec, 2023 I visited UW Madison to present at the Applied Algebra Seminar. Hello Madison!
Oct, 2023 I co-organized the 2nd Distinguished Women in Statistics and Data Science Workshop. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Sep, 2023 I stayed at IMSI, Chicago for the long program Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World until December. It was a fantastic program with amazing people.
July, 2023 I spent the summer at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. I miss the nights spent at the Institute's library.
Fellowships
Summer Mentored Research Fellowship, UCLA
ACM-W Scholarship, Association for Computing Machinery
Cathay Bank Scholarship
Overseas Research Fellowship, The University of Hong Kong