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

• [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

• 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.

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 2019
  Rank 1^st out of the department

• SAMSUNG Scholarship 2018
  Rank 1^st out of the department