Zepeng Zhang

Master Student at ShanghaiTech

zhangzp1 (at) shanghaitech (dot) edu (dot) cn

About Me

I'm now a master student at School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China, supervised by Prof. Ziping Zhao.

I received my B.Eng. degree in Measuting & Control Technology and Instrumentations from the School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University (WHU), Wuhan, China in 2020. I was a visiting student at Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of HongKong (CityU).

My interests include: Machine Learning, Optimization, and Applications in Finance.

News

• [July 2021] One paper has been accepted by Asilomar 2021.
• [July 2021] One paper has been accepted by SPAWC 2021.
• [May 2021] One paper has been accepted by SSP 2021.
• [May 2021] One paper has been accepted by EUSIPCO 2021.
• [Sep. 2020] Begin master study in SIST @ ShanghaiTech University.
• [Aug. 2020] One paper has been accepted by Asilomar 2020.

Education & Experiences

• School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
  Dec. 2019 - Present

• Department of Measuting & Control Technology and Instrumentations, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
  Sept. 2016 - June 2020

• Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, City Univercity of HongKong, HongKong
  July 2019 - Sept. 2019

Publications

• Multi-Period Portfolio Optimization for Financial Index Tracking
  Xiuyuan Huang, Zepeng Zhang and Ziping Zhao, in Proc. of the 55th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC/Asilomar), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Oct. 31th - Nov. 3rd, 2021.

• Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization for Multi-Hop RIS-Aided Multi-User Communications:A Minorization-Maximization Approach
  Zepeng Zhang and Ziping Zhao, in Proc. of the 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Lucca, Italy, Sep. 27‐30, 2021.

• Vast Portfolio Selection With Submodular Norm Regularizations
  Zepeng Zhang and Ziping Zhao, in Proc. of the 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 23-27, 2021.

• Scalable Financial Index Tracking With Graph Neural Networks
  Zepeng Zhang and Ziping Zhao, in Proc. of the 21st IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 11-14, 2021.

• A Deep Learning-Aided Approach to Portfolio Design for Financial Index Tracking
  Zepeng Zhang and Ziping Zhao, in Proc. of the 54th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC/Asilomar), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 1-4, 2020.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant for CS 182: Introduction to Machine Learning | 2021-22 Fall, ShanghaiTech.
• Teaching Assistant for SI 231: Matrix Analysis and Computations | 2020-21 Spring, ShanghaiTech.

Awards & Honors

Contests

• 1^st prize of 2018 RoboCup China Open 2018

• 1^st prize of 2018 Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2018

• 3^rd prize of 2018 The Chinese Robot Skills Competitions 2018

• 1^st prize of 2017 The Chinese Mathematics Competitions, Hubei Prov. 2017

Scholarships

• Yu Gang Scholarship (Top 1%, Rank 1^st out of the department), WHU, 2018-19

• SAMSUNG Scholarship (Top 1%, Rank 1^st out of the department), WHU, 2017-18

• The First Prize Scholarship (Top 5%), WHU, 2017-18, 2018-19

• The Second Prize Scholarship (Top 15%), WHU, 2016-17