Nan Zhang

Nan Zhang

C417, Francis and Rose Yuen Campus

579 Guoquan Road

Fudan University

I was affiliated with the Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence and the School of Data Science at Fudan University.

My research lies at the intersection of statistics and artificial intelligence. I work on nonparametric methods, statistical machine learning, and functional data analysis. I am particularly interested in connecting noisy data with physical mechanisms governed by differential equations, including applications in computational neuroscience.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Statistics from Texas A&M University under the supervision of Jianhua Huang. I then held a postdoctoral research position before joining Fudan. I received a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics from Peking University.

Prospective students: if you are interested in joining my group, please email me with your CV and a brief description of your research interests.

Selected publications

  1. M. Nanshan*, N. Zhang, and J. Cao
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2026, to appear  
  2. Y. Liu*, J. Qu*, S. Cao, C. Zhang, and N. Zhang
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
  3. N. Zhang, P. Liu, L. Kong, B. Jiang, and J. Z. Huang
    Bernoulli, 2024